Jean-Philippe Toussaint

• Mar-2004
• / General Fiction
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An immediate bestseller in France, Making Love is an original and daring retelling of a classic theme: the end of an affair. As much an exploration of setting and place as it is of the affair that comes apart in them, Making Love follows a coupleâ...

• Dec-2004
• / Literary
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The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's novel is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. Unfortunately, he can't d...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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The hero, Monsieur, is a successful young executive in Paris whose daily life is examined with precision. He is nothing if not unremarkable. Here, he muses on everything from the night sky to a Rotring pen. And he is very funny....

• Nov-2008
• / Literary
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First published in France in 1985, The Bathroom was Jean-Philippe Toussaint s debut novel, and it heralded a new generation of innovative French literature. In this playful and perplexing book, we meet a young Parisian researcher who lives inside his...

• Nov-2008
• / Literary
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In this improbable love story, Toussaint creates a character who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise. What happ...

• Nov-2009
• / Thriller
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• May-2010
• / Literary
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In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator—a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself—travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossip in Tokyo and has a bat...

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth about Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Toussaint’s acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the titular Marie -- the story switching deftly betw...

• Apr-2012
• / Literary
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“A little thing happened to me. Which could just as easily have happened to you. You’re on vacation in a hotel with your son in a small village and you’re about to go see some friends, but something holds you back, a mysterious reticence that p...

• Dec-2025
• / Literary
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An analyst at the heart of the European Union revisits his past and anticipates the future after his father???s death, in this brilliant, nuanced novel of love, politics, masculinity, and memory.A European civil servant specializing in strategic fore...