Francois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside. And, as Besson moves through an ugly and threatening rain, his thoughts eventually lead to violence, first turned outward and then directed languidly against himself.
- ISBN
9780141191409
- Published
- November 27th 2008 by Penguin Books Ltd
- Category
- Modern Fiction
- Number of pages
- 300
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129