White
Marie Darrieussecq author Ian Monk translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Published:4th May '06
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
It is 2015. Edmée and Pete are engineers on a remote research station in Antarctica. Both are running from tragic events at home.
In this setting of magnificent desolation, just fifteen kilometres from the South Pole, a love affair begins to flourish - until there is a catastrophic power failure at the base . . .
"'Beautiful, disturbing and startlingly inventive.' Metro 'A major achievement. This is indeed writing on a grand scale in a slim volume.' Guardian 'Pits the heat of desire against the unmelting glaciers. One of the freshest, quirkiest and most radical voices in contemporary French fiction.' Michele Roberts, Independent"
ISBN: 9780571223886
Dimensions: 197mm x 127mm x 12mm
Weight: 135g
160 pages
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