Undercurrents: A Novel

by Marie Darrieussecq, Linda Coverdale (Translator)

Overview

An international literary superstar since the publication of her "fascinating and original" (The New York Times Book Review) first novel, Pig Tails, and her "tender, extraordinarily nuanced" (Publishers Weekly) follow-up novel, My Phantom Husband—an immediate number one bestseller in France—Marie Darrieussecq now gives us her greatest triumph to date.

InUndercurrents, a mother and daughter mysteriously disappear to a deserted seaside town in France, as the novel poetically evokes the varied moods and rich palette of the ocean. From seemingly simple events, Darrieussecq deftly plunges the reader into a sensual, surrealistic literary experience grounded in—yet worlds away from—day-to-day reality.

Called "truly inspired" by Le Pointe and "gripping" by Le Monde, Undercurrents fulfills and exceeds our expectations of this talented young author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565846272
Publisher:	New Press, The
Publication date:	03/01/2001
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marie Darrieussecqis a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and teaches in Lille.

Editorial Reviews

A woman "kidnaps" her young daughter—or so it initially appears—in this skillfully understated third novel from the young French author of Pig Tales (1997) and My Phantom Husband (1999). But its characters' identities are both shadowy and fluid, and the primary setting (an unidentified deserted seaside resort) is an enigmatic wasteland to which both the fugitives and their pursuers are inexorably drawn—and from which they receive a variety of gorgeously described, suggestive, and eventually explanatory sensory impressions. A beautifully constructed little nightmare: Darrieussecq's best yet.

Kirkus Reviews