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"A man wanders the streets of Paris haunted by the memory of a young woman's bloodied corpse and tormented by the possibility that he was her murderer." He rushes home, but his wife recoils from him, the neighbourhood he loves is violently hostile and when he looks in the mirror, he sees nothing. Terrified by the world in which he finds himself and pursued by the secret police, he has no choice but to flee.
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"A man wanders the streets of Paris haunted by the memory of a young woman's bloodied corpse and tormented by the possibility that he was her murderer." He rushes home, but his wife recoils from him, the neighbourhood he loves is violently hostile and when he looks in the mirror, he sees nothing. Terrified by the world in which he finds himself and pursued by the secret police, he has no choice but to flee.

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In this atmospheric quest through a nightmarish, right-wing-ruled France, an unnamed man discovers he's lost 12 years of his life and is wanted for a brutal murder. The National Party controls daily life, and the Ministry of Racial Differences doesn't allow nonwhites out during the day. Slowly the man learns that he's now a "Spirit," casting no reflection, able to kill by allowing people to see into his eyes, with the authorities constantly on his trail. This scenario allows Pauvert to describe much of his country, from Nice to Paris, from the seaside into the Alps, as well as sing the praises of stolen motorcycles. Winner of the Prix Carrefour for Best First Novel, this episodic, poetic book takes an introspective look at identity and dim shadow worlds, where the Fugitive-like figure has the presence of mind to understand that he's "a ghost in a world of zombies." Those expecting a traditional thriller with narrative drive will be disappointed. (Dec.)

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A bleak yet imaginative vision of the future, this first novel from France conjures a world of drugged citizens controlled by an elite bureaucracy. A nameless man stumbles upon the dead body of a woman, the victim of a brutal crime, and is then arrested. The vehicle transporting him to prison crashes, and he finds himself on the loose, trying to discover the facts behind the woman's murder and what part he played in it, since he has no memory of these events. He travels to Paris to try to reunite with his family, but he slowly comes to recognize that he no longer looks like himself, no one wants anything to do with him, he is being hunted by omnipresent security forces, and he is now mysteriously able to kill people by looking into their eyes. When he stumbles upon African immigrants who recognize him as a fellow outsider, they help him to find a retired journalist who investigated the murder. Eventually, he accepts a revenge mission against the man seen as the leader of the country's controlling party. Although gruesome at times, this exciting chase story vividly conveys the altered reality of this futuristic society. Recommended for all collections.
—Jim Coan

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  • ISBN-13: 9781582434476
  • Publisher: Counterpoint
  • Publication date: 12/1/2008
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.90 (d)

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  • Posted July 18, 2009

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    Well written but violent

    A man is living a kind of nightmare. He may have committed a horrifying crime, but he does not remember. He soon discovers that he is no longer the man he used to be, as he sets off on his quest to find out what happened to him and what he may have done. Unfortunately, during his memory gap, France became a totalitarian state, and he is being hunted by the secret police.
    This book is extremely well written, but it is very violent. I don't mind a little of the ultra violence in a book, but I am turned off when some of the brutality is directed against children. No sexual violence - just raw, graphic slaughtering. Definitely not for everyone.
    G. Katz

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  • Anonymous

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    a forboding gloomy suspense saga

    In 2019 France, he is arrested when he is found by the body of a murder victim. The transport crashes leaving him dazed and frightened to wander the streets of Paris wondering who he is and did he do what the only seeming memory he has. Could he be a murderer as his only vision is that of a brutalized woman's corpse?--------------- He manages to get home, but his wife fears him and worse when he looks in a mirror he fails to recognize the image looking back. No one seems to want to help him in fact they prefer to turn him over to the cops. The secret police of the ruling French National party search for him even as he learns he has a dark power to stare into someone¿s eyes until they die. African immigrants take him to the outlawed Noir who help him obtain the truth behind the woman¿s murder and give him a reason to live: kill the leader of the French National Party.-------------- This grim dark near futuristic thriller modernizes melds and extrapolates 1984 with THE STRANGER into a dystopian 2019. The nameless lead character struggles for understanding in a society totally owned by the party through the use of electronic gizmos and drug control of its citizens. Readers who appreciate a forbidding gloomy suspense saga will appreciate the cat and mouse French morality tale in which fascism rules.------------ Harriet Klausner

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