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Mathias Énard 
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild 

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From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an exciting comic masterwork rooted in the French countryside. 


WINNER OF THE 2024 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE


To 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.


Brimming with Mathias Énard’s characteristic wit and encyclopedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild is a riotous novel where the edges between past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian backdrop of excess.


 

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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.
Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 432 ● ISBN 9780811231305 ● Mărime fișier 3.5 MB ● Traducător Frank Wynne ● Editura New Directions ● Țară US ● Publicat 2023 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 9225618 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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