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Quarry
Paperback
Series: French Litearture
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9781628973273
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Published: Feb 18 2020
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Pisa, Italy, an Armenian immigrant named Marco Iprannossian 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 Marco, his friends on the outside, the judge presiding over this case, her husband, and their teenage daughter, Lea. Through 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.
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