- Fiction, general, Romance literature, Novelists, Fiction
Georges Perec planned a mystery novel of 28 chapters: he died before completing it. From his notebooks his friends assembled the elements of the unfinished part. The narrator is sent to the French colonies to teach maths - as well as being entrusted with tracking down an arms dealer.
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Grave, prestige, open-ended and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- P.O.L., Gallimard, David R. Godine
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- French, English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9788817670623
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