An electrifying global conspiracy-thriller from the internationally bestselling author of HHhH.
Laurent Binet lives and works in France. His first novel, HHhH, was an international bestseller which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt du premier roman, among other prizes.
Establishes Laurent Binet as the clear heir to the late Umberto
Eco, writing novels that are both brilliant and playful, dense with
ideas while never losing sight of their need to entertain... One of
the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you’ll
read this year
*Observer*
A hugely entertaining novel, taking delight in its own twists and
turns
*Spectator*
Lively, earthy, experimental, ambitious, clever and endlessly
entertaining… Smart, witty, direct, cool
*The Times Literary Supplement*
The premise is a stroke of genius. Roland Barthes did not die
following an accident in 1980; he was murdered… The strands of the
plot are skilfully interwoven through a dual process of
fictionalisation of the real and realisation of the fictional
*Financial Times*
An almost filmic detective romp, taking in glamorous international
locations, killer dogs, Bulgarian secret agents, several varieties
of sex and wild car chases
*Literary Review*
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