Pierre Peju is a popular French writer, winner of prestigious literary awards, author of more than 15 novels and essays, translated into two dozen languages. The novel “The Laughter of the Cannibal,” published in 2005, won the Fnac award based on voting among book publishers and readers. “The Laughter of the Cannibal” is a story about love and war, a discussion about art and the search for meaning in every minute lived. The book is written in an unforgettably figurative language, full of vivid metaphors, with incredible depth of character and truly French grace. Sixteen-year-old Paul Marlowe spends the summer in Germany, where he tries to improve his German. But at the same time, he experiences the taste of first love and for the first time encounters the cruelty and duality of the world around him... These collisions - both with a girl so unlike others, and with the creatures of the nature of evil - will lie in wait for Paul throughout his long life. And having chosen the path of a sculptor, who daily enters into battle with stone, he tries to find answers to the eternal questions of existence.