Jean Echenoz: 27 books

Seven short stories by the Prix Goncourt winner—“the most distinctive voice of his generation . . . master magician of the contemporary French novel” (The Washington Post). France’s preeminent fiction writer, Jean Echenoz is celebrated for his ability to craft stories with such precision...

A single volume that gathers together three of the most remarkable novels from Jean Echenoz, the “most distinctive French voice of his generation” (The Washington Post), Three by Echenoz demonstrates the award-winning author’s extraordinary versatility and elegant yet playful style at its finest. “A...

World-class, prize-winning novelist: Echenoz is a winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt for I’m Gone and a literary luminary in France. His previous novels, including Ravel, Running, 1914, and Lightning, which have been shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and have won the Prix...

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Winner of France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt and a runaway bestseller, Jean Echenoz’s I’m Gone is the ideal introduction to the sly wit, unique voice, and colorful imagination of “the master magician of the contemporary French novel” (The Washington Post). Nothing less than a heist caper,...

Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi–award–winning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has...

Following his brilliant portrait of Maurice Ravel, Jean Echenoz turns to the life of one of the greatest runners of the twentieth century, and once again demonstrates his astonishing abilities as a prose stylist. Set against the backdrop of the Soviet liberation and post–World War II communist rule...

Por las páginas de esta novela asoman, entre otras muchas cosas, un secuestro, un general conspirador y su secuaz, una moderna Mata Hari, una vieja gloria del pop a la que acecha un pasado oscuro, un atracador vengativo, un hombre misterioso con una mancha en la cara en forma de mapa de Nueva Guinea,...

Drawn from the life of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of his time, Lightning is a captivating tale of one man’s curious fascination with the marvels of science. Hailed by the Washington Post as “the most distinctive voice of his generation,” Echenoz traces the notable career...

Ai Giochi interalleati di Berlino, nel 1946, vedendo dietro il cartello "Czechoslovakia" un solo atleta male in arnese, tutti ridono. E quando quell’atleta, che non si è accorto della convocazione, attraversa lo stadio come un pazzo urlando e agitando le braccia, i giornalisti estraggono...

En los Juegos Interaliados de Berlín, en 1946, al ver de­trás del cartel de Checoslovaquia a un solo atleta desma­ñado, todo el mundo se ríe. Pero después, cuando en los cinco mil metros acelera sin parar y cruza la meta en so­litario, los espectadores estallan en un clamor. El nom­bre de...

Byron Caine, inventor que trabaja en París a las órdenes del poderoso Georges Haas, huye con los documentos de un proyecto secreto y con la hija de su patrono. La pareja se instala en una exótica isla de Oceanía, por cuyo centro pasa precisamente el meridiano de Greenwich. Haas contrata a un implacable...

Trentaquattro anni, camicetta azzurra attillata, pantaloni skinny antracite, corto caschetto alla Louise Brooks – in una parola, incantevole. È così che ci appare Constance, poco attiva e poco qualificata, ma in compenso duttile, molto incline alle disavventure sentimentali e misteriosamente...

Quando vede la luce in un'imprecisata località dell'Europa sudorientale, un furioso temporale manda in frantumi i vetri, fa roteare crocifissi e quadri, spegne lampade e candele – sinché un lampo gigantesco illumina il neonato e tutte le pendole impazziscono. Quel lampo sarà il segno distintivo...