Reading Garnier’s short novels side by side allows his profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience to be fully appreciated.
Volume 1 includes:
- The A26, in which a new Picardy motorway brings modernity close to a flat in which a brother and sister live together, haunted by terminal illness and the events of 1945;
- How’s the Pain?, the tale of an ageing ‘pest exterminator’ taking on one last job on the French Riviera;
- and The Panda Theory, in which a stranger, Gabriel, arrives in a Breton town and befriends the locals … but is he as angelic as he seems?
Translated from the French by Melanie Florence and Emily Boyce.
Original titles:
L'A26
Comment va la douleur ?
La Théorie du panda
Reading Garnier’s short novels side by side allows his profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience to be fully appreciated.
Volume 1 includes:
- The A26, in which a new Picardy motorway brings modernity close to a flat in which a brother and sister live together, haunted by terminal illness and the events of 1945;
- How’s the Pain?, the tale of an ageing ‘pest exterminator’ taking on one last job on the French Riviera;
- and The Panda Theory, in which a stranger, Gabriel, arrives in a Breton town and befriends the locals … but is he as angelic as he seems?
Translated from the French by Melanie Florence and Emily Boyce.
Original titles:
L'A26
Comment va la douleur ?
La Théorie du panda