Jean Echenoz

• Apr-1993
• / General Fiction
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In this entertaining, superbly-crafted book, Jean Echenoz exhibits the ease with language and character that has earned him an international reputation as an imaginative, ambitious novelist. His remarkable ability to weave strands of a plot with ling...

• Sep-1994
• / General Fiction
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Here, translated into English for the first time, is one of the most inventive, talented, and enjoyable voices of modern France. Said by Le Monde to be "gifted with a wild, unprecedented imagination," Jean Echenoz won the prestigious Medicis Prize fo...

• Jun-1997
• / Psychological Suspense
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Renowned singer Gloire Stella has mysteriously disappeared. When a television producer tries to track her down, Gloire goes on the run. From the cliffs of Brittany to the back alleys of Bombay, Big Blondes is a riotous, nonstop adventure for anyone w...

• Apr-2004
• / Literary
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With his trademark comically wry phrasing and a sure eye for quirky detail, Echenoz has produced his oddest and most enjoyable novel to date. Chopin's Move interweaves the fates of Chopin, entomologist and recalcitrant secret agent; Oswald, a youn...

• Apr-2004
• / General Fiction
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Max Delmarc, age fifty, is a famous concert pianist with two problems: the first is a paralyzing stage fright for which the second, alcohol, is the only treatment. In this unparalleled comedy from the Prix Goncourt�"winning French novelist Jean E...

• Jun-2007
• / Suspense
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“A tiny miracle of a biographical novel” inspired by the life of the brilliant French composer (Booklist).  Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award   This beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in t...

• Oct-2009
• / Literary
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Following his brilliant portrait of Maurice Ravel, Jean Echenoz turns to the life of one of the greatest runners of the twentieth century, and once again demonstrates his astonishing abilities as a prose stylist. Set against the backdrop of the Sovie...

• Jun-2011
• / Historical
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Drawn from the life of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of his time,Lightning is a captivating tale of one man's curious fascination with the marvels of science.Hailed by the Washington Post as “the most distinctive voice of his generati...

• Jan-2014
• / Historical
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Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi-award-winning French literary magician whose work has been comp...

• May-2014
• / Action Adventure
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Winner of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt and a runaway bestseller, Jean Echenoz's I'm Gone is the ideal introduction to the sly wit, unique voice, and colorful imagination of “the master magician of the contemporary French novel” (The Washing...

• Jun-2014
• / Women's Fiction
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A single volume that gathers together three of the most remarkable novels from Jean Echenoz, the �"most distinctive French voice of his generation” (The Washington Post), Three by Echenoz demonstrates the award-winning author’s extraordinary vers...

• Apr-2015
• / Literary
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Seven short stories by the Prix Goncourt winner -- “the most distinctive voice of his generation . . . master magician of the contemporary French novel” (The Washington Post).   France’s preeminent fiction writer, Jean Echen...

• Feb-2017
• / Literary
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Louis Meyer is an overworked aerospace engineer looking forward to a week-long vacation on the Mediterranean. DeMilo is an astronaut and self-proclaimed ladies' man whose behavior borders on the obsessive and voyeuristic. When a series of coincidence...

• Nov-2017
• / Literary
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Longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award

�"Special Envoy is an exceedingly French spy thriller.”� -- New York Times Book ReviewA dazzling satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita, part Pink Panther and ...