Philippe Claudel is the author of many novels, including Brodeck, which won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2007 and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010. His novel By a Slow River has been translated into thirty-two languages and was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 2003 and the Elle Readers’ Literary Prize in 2004. Claudel also wrote and directed the 2008 film I’ve Loved You So Long, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, which won a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language.
“A world that is by turns farcical, absurdist, allegorical. . . .
Skillfully evokes the insidious, modern fear that we, like the
Investigator, are playing bit parts in some vast, incomprehensible
system.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Impressive . . . a self-aware book about self-awareness, about the
process of becoming a person, the search for self. . . . [Claudel]
has managed a rare trick.” —The Daily Telegraph (London)
“Darkly comic, pleasingly strange.” —The Daily Beast
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