Gallic Noir
Description
The second volume of the collected works of 'the true heir to Simenon', the late French noir writer Pascal Garnier.
'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' New York Times
Enter the world of Pascal Garnier, where life's misfits take centre stage, there is drama in the everyday and the unexpected is always just around the corner.
Volume 2 includes Boxes, which tells the story of Brice, 'the sole survivor of the natural disaster that at one time or another strikes us all, known as 'moving house''; The Front Seat Passenger, in which a widower discovers his wife had a lover and decides to track down his widow; The Islanders, whose protagonist Olivier finds himself thrown back together with a childhood friend with whom he shares a dark secret; and Moon in a Dead Eye, in which the paranoia of the residents of a gated retirement village spins out of control.
Dark, funny and shot through with menace, these perfectly crafted novellas of Gallic noir are also affecting studies in human alienation.
Product Details
| Publisher | Gallic Books |
| Publish Date | July 10, 2018 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781910477595 |
| Dimensions | 7.0 X 5.0 X 1.2 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
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 Ardèche, 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 Florence teaches 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 Aitken is a publisher and translator from the French.
Reviews
Praise for Pascal Garnier
'A dark, richly odd and disconcerting world ... devastating and brilliant' Sunday Times
'A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard' Financial Times
'A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince' Sunday Telegraph
'Garnier's take on the frailty of life has a bracing originality' Sunday Times
'Marvellously unpredictable' The Guardian
'A master of the surreal noir thriller - Luis Buñuel meets Georges Simenon' TLS
'Bleak, often funny and never predictable' Observer
'For those with a taste for Georges Simenon or Patricia Highsmith' The Independent
'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' Marilyn Stasio, New York Times
'Pascal Garnier is my favourite French crime writer by a country mile ...' Laura Wilson, The Guardian
'Horribly funny ... appalling and bracing in equal measure. Masterful' John Banville
'Garnier plunges you into a bizarre, overheated world, seething death, writing, fictions and philosophy. He's a trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read' A. L. Kennedy
'Wonderful ... Properly noir' Ian Rankin
'Ennui, dislocation, alienation, estrangement - these are the colours on Garnier's palette. His books are out there on their own, short, jagged and exhilarating, unexpected slaps around the face that make you laugh with surprise while you spin around to see who did it' Stanley Donwood
'Exquisite noir' Publishers Weekly
'Brief, brisk, ruthlessly entertaining ... Garnier makes bleakness pleasurable' John Powers, NPR
'Wickedly fun ... wonderfully dark' Complete Review
'A perfectly balanced cross between a thriller and a social document' L'Express
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