{"product_id":"9781804270226","title":"The Birthday Party","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Mauvignier, Laurent, Becker, Daniel Levin\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 18 January 2023 by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 504 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 199 x 35 | 474g\u003cp\u003eBuried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbour, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar car rolling up the driveway. And as night falls, strangers stalk the houses, unleashing a nightmarish chain of events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a deft unravelling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mauvignier, Laurent, Becker, Daniel Levin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465849999544,"sku":"9781804270226","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781804270226.jpg?v=1734723897","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781804270226","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}