Pascal Garnier - Böcker

"You've only been here for a few days but you already know loads of people. You walk into people's lives, just like that." Gabriel is a stranger in a small Breton town. Nobody knows where he came from or why he's here. Yet...

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At first it feels like a terrible mistake: they're the only residents and it's raining non-stop. Then three neighbours arrive, the sun comes out, and life becomes far more interesting and agreeable. Until, that is, some gypsies set up ca...

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Fabien and Sylvie had both known their marriage was no longer working. And yet when Sylvie is involved in a fatal car accident, her husband is stunned to discover that she had a lover who died alongside her. With thoughts of revenge on his mind, F...

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It's a few days before Christmas in Versailles. Olivier has come to bury his mother, but the impending holidays and icy conditions have delayed the funeral. While trapped in limbo at his mother's flat, a chance encounter brings Olivier back in tou...

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Fabien and Sylvie had both known their marriage was no longer working. And yet when Sylvie is involved in a fatal car accident, her husband is stunned to discover that she had a lover who died alongside her. With thoughts of revenge on his mind, F...

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Brice and Emma had bought their new home in the countryside together. And then Emma disappeared. Now, as he awaits her return, Brice busies himself with DIY and walks around the village. He gradually comes to know his new neighbours including Blan...

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A crime author writing the story of Louis, who decides to do his cash-strapped friends a favor by hastening their parents' demise, finds reality and fiction overlapping during a stay in Normandy.Pascal Garnier combines the style of Simenon, the in...

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Recently widowed grandmother Eliette is returning to her house in the mountains when her car breaks down. A stranger offers help and Eliette gives him a lift, glad of the company and interruption to her routine. A tale of retirement and calm domes...

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At least vultures have the decency to wait until their prey's dead before picking it apart ...After losing his wife and suffering a stroke, cantankerous retiree Edouard Lavenant has moved from Lyon to a village in the mountains with his put-u...

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Written over a 15-year period from the mid '90s, Garnier's short novels weave a profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience. Volume 2 includes Boxes, which tells the story of Brice, `the sole survivor of the natural disaster t...

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'One of the most remarkable and, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most inexplicably underappreciated French writers of the twentieth century' John Banville, New York Review of BooksEnter the world of Pascal Garnier, where life's ...

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'Wonderful. . . properly noir' Ian Rankin 'Devastating and brilliant' Sunday Times 'Happiness for those unused to it is like food for the starving - a little too much can be fatal.' Writer Jeff Colombier is not accust...

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Shifting from psychological thriller to absurd road trip tinged with black humor, A Long Way Off is the odyssey of an anti-hero France-Amrique Rich and abundant in dark comedy Strong Words Magazine 'Masterly' John Banville 'Wonderfu...

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How's the Pain? is an off-kilter, blackly comic novel about an unlikely duo of a soon-to-be-retired assassin and a deadbeat young man, from the 'slyly funny' [Sunday Times] Pascal Garnier. 'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny&...

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L'Australie occidentale: avec l'aide des notes recueillies dans un voyage antérieur par Pascal Garnier / par Jules Garnier... Date de l'édition originale: 1900 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrag...

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L'Australie occidentale: avec l'aide des notes recueillies dans un voyage antérieur par Pascal Garnier / par Jules Garnier... Date de l'édition originale: 1900 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrag...

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Les publications sur la petite enfance concernent le plus souvent les politiques familiales et leurs consquences sur l'emploi, ainsi que le dveloppement et la socialisation des jeunes enfants. Mais que sait-on prcisment du travail des professionne...

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Written by specialists of cultural and creative industries of childhood and youth, this book offers new international and pluridisciplinary insights into the world of media and cultural goods in children's and young people's lives. The chapters in...

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Auch wenn sich Fabien und Sylvie dies nicht eingestanden hätten, wussten beide, dass ihre Ehe nicht mehr funktionierte. Doch als Sylvie bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kommt, muss Fabien zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass neben seiner Frau auch ihr Liebhabe...

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Auch wenn sich Fabien und Sylvie dies nicht eingestanden hÿtten, wussten beide, dass ihre Ehe nicht mehr funktionierte. Doch als Sylvie bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kommt, muss Fabien zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass neben seiner Frau auch ihr Liebhab...

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Yolande hat seit fünfzig Jahren das Haus nicht mehr verlassen - seitdem man ihr den Kopf kahlgeschoren hat, weil sie sich während des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit deutschen Soldaten eingelassen hatte. Was draußen passiert, beobachtet sie durch ein Loch ...

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Yolande hat seit fünfzig Jahren das Haus nicht mehr verlassen ? seitdem man ihr den Kopf kahlgeschoren hat, weil sie sich wÿhrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit deutschen Soldaten eingelassen hatte. Was drauÿen passiert, beobachtet sie durch ein Lo...

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