Gallic Noir

Boxes, The Front Seat Passenger, The Islanders, Moon in a Dead Eye

Pascal Garnier, Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken , Melanie Florence

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Gallic Books
10 July 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Gallic Noirs

"'Garnier's crime novels add significantly to the latest renaissance for this type of dark narrative.' Publishers WeeklyVolume 2 includes The Front Seat Passenger, in which Fabien discovers his wife died in a car accident alongside her lover, and decides to track down that man's widow; Moon in a Dead Eye, in which the paranoia of the residents of a gated retirement village in the south of France spins out of control; The Islanders, whose protagonist Olivier finds himself thrown back together with a childhood friend with whom he shares a dark secret; and Boxes, which tells the story of troubled children's author Brice, 'the sole survivor of the natural disaster that at one time or another strikes us all, known as ""moving house""'."

By: Pascal Garnier
Translated by: Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken, Melanie Florence
Imprint: Gallic Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781910477595
ISBN 10: 1910477591
Series: Gallic Noirs
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 10 July 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pascal Garnier, who died in March 2010, was a talented novelist, short story writer, children's author and painter. From his home in the mountains of the Ardche, he wrote fiction in a noir palette with a cast of characters drawn from ordinary provincial life. Though his writing is often very dark in tone, it sparkles with quirkily beautiful imagery and dry wit. Garnier's work has been likened to the great thriller writer, Georges Simenon. Melanie Florenceteaches at the University of Oxford and translates from the French. Emily Boyce is a translator and editor. She was shortlisted for the French Book Office New Talent in Translation Award in 2008, the French-American Translation Prize in 2016, and the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 2021. She lives in London. Jane Aitkenis a publisher and translator from the French.

Reviews for Gallic Noir: Boxes, The Front Seat Passenger, The Islanders, Moon in a Dead Eye

`A trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read' A. L. Kennedy;'Horribly funny ... appalling and bracing in equal measure' John Banville;'A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard' FT;'Bleak, often funny and never predictable' The Observer;'A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince.' Sunday Telegraph;'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' New York Times