The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

à nard, Mathias

ISBN 10: 0811231291 / ISBN 13: 9780811231299

Verlag: New Directions, 2023

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WINNER OF THE 2024 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSETo research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to understand the essence of the local culture, the intrepid young scholar scurries around restlessly on his moped to interview residents.But what David doesn’t yet know is that here, in this seemingly ordinary place, once the stage for wars and revolutions, Death leads a dance: when one thing perishes, the Wheel of Life recycles its soul and hurls it back into the world as microbe, human, or wild animal, sometimes in the past, sometimes in the future. And once a year, Death and the living observe a temporary truce during a gargantuan three-day feast where gravediggers gorge themselves on food, drink, and language.The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Mathias Énard is the author of Compass (winner of the Prix Goncourt, the Leipzig Prize, and the Premio von Rezzori, and shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize), Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, Zone, and Street of Thieves.

Frank Wynne has translated works by Michel Houellebecq, Claude Lanzmann, Boualem Sansal, Virginie Despentes, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, and many others.

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Titel: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
Verlag: New Directions
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good