Bibliograph

Quarry, Célia Houdart ; translated from the French by K.E. Gormley

Type

Label

Quarry, Célia Houdart ; translated from the French by K.E. Gormley

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Quarry

Oclc number

1124771607

Responsibility statement

Célia Houdart ; translated from the French by K.E. Gormley

Summary

"In Pisa, Italy, an Armenian immigrant named Marco Ipranossian sits in jail awaiting judgment on the attempted murder of a local official. The novel opens on the first day of his hearing-three years after his arrest-and follows the lives of (among others) Marco, his friends on the outside, the judge presiding over his case, her husband, and their teenage daughter, Lea. Though deceptively structured as a crime novel, Quarry's real concerns are both far smaller and far larger than those of a typical whodunit. Houdart's modern tale, presented in a series of brief, elliptical snapshots, is a precision-cut gem of literary minimalism"--, Provided by publisher

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