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The anomaly / Hervé Le Tellier ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
"Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna, a formidable lawyer whose flaws have caught up with her; and Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet commercially unsuccessful writer who suddenly becomes a cult hit. All of them believed they had double lives. None imagined just how true that was. A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic, The Anomaly explores the part of ourselves that eludes us. This witty variation on the doppelgänger theme, which takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House, proves to be Hervé Le Tellier's most ambitious work yet"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781635421699 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 391 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Other Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in French as L'anomalie: Paris : Gallimard, 2020. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Doppelgängers > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
Blending together crime, fantasy, sci-fi and thriller, this fast-paced, whip-smart novel poses the question of who would we be if we had made different choices as the passengers of Air France 006 are about to find out. Original. - Baker & Taylor
"Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna, a formidable lawyer whose flaws have caught up withher; and Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet commercially unsuccessful writer who suddenly becomes a cult hit. All of them believed they had double lives. None imagined just how true that was. A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic, The Anomaly explores the part of ourselves that eludes us. This witty variation on the doppelgèanger theme, which takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House, proves to be Hervâe Le Tellier's most ambitious work yet"-- - Random House, Inc.
A New York Times bestseller and a "Best Thriller of the Year"
Winner of the Goncourt Prize and now an international phenomenon, this dizzying, whip-smart novel blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight.
Who would we be if we had made different choices? Told that secret, left that relationship, written that book? We all wonderâthe passengers of Air France 006 will find out.
In their own way, they were all living double lives when they boarded the plane:
    Blake, a respectable family man who works as a contract killer.
    Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star who uses his womanizing image to hide that heâs gay.
    Joanna, a Black American lawyer pressured to play the good old boysâ game to succeed with her Big Pharma client.
    Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet largely obscure writer suddenly on the precipice of global fame.
   About to start their descent to JFK, they hit a shockingly violent patch of turbulence, emerging on the other side to a reality both perfectly familiar and utterly strange. As it charts the fallout of this logic-defying event, The Anomaly takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House and a top-secret hangar.
   In Hervé Le Tellierâs most ambitious work yet, high literature follows the lead of a bingeable Netflix series, drawing on the best of genre fiction from âchick litâ to mystery, while also playfully critiquing their hallmarks. An ingenious, timely variation on the doppelgänger theme, it taps into the parts of ourselves that elude us most.
