A wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing thedarkly comic nature of the human condition.The Investigator is a man quite like any oth...

Forced into a brutal concentration camp during a great war, Brodeck returns to his village at the war’s end and takes up his old job of writing reports fo...

Philippe Claudel is one of the most famous contemporary writers in France. The novel was named the best novel of 2003. In his work, the writer successfully d...

This story could have happened anywhere, and its hero could have been anyone. Because toughness, meanness and callousness have no geographical coordinates, n...

“Grey Souls” is not just a thriller. This is a deeply powerful psychological novel, which, as Entertainment Weekly very accurately notes, is more reminiscent...

A subtle, unusual, elegantly sophisticated novel. Mr. Lin is a forced immigrant. He does not speak French, European traditions are alien to him. He is alone ...

The novel “My name is Brodeck”, awarded the Goncourt Lyceum Prize, is compared with the works of Camus and Kafka, Schlink’s “The Reader” and Coetzee’s “Infam...

Like Proust, Philippe Claudel tries to stop time, preserving in memory those moments that you don’t want to part with, which are like flashes of bright light...