Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn't know him and another man is living in his house under his name. The imposter shares all of Martin's memories, experiences, and knowledge down to the last detail. Is it conspiracy? Amnesia? An elaborate hoax or his own paranoid delusion? Part moral fable, part thriller, Unknown is a fast-paced tale of one man's desperate attempt to reclaim his existence-even at the cost of his own life. Watch a Video

Unknown: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Van Cauwelaert, Didier

Genre Fiction

Penguin??Books

"Simply thrilling. Its surprising denouement works a retrospective magic." - New York Times Book Review "Van Cauwelaert has assembled his plot perfectly, like an intricate timepiece, and we are amazed by the precise ticking that sounds at every twist in the tale. The book reads like a close cousin of Philip K. Dick, the acknowledged master of doubting what's real." - Olivier Delcroix "A devilishly well-oiled plot, which grabs the reader with both hands, drags him along, and twists him around." - Le Spectacle du Monde Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn't know him, another man is living in his house under his name, and the neighbors think he's a raving lunatic. Worse, not a single person—family, colleague, or doctor—can vouch for him. Worse still, the impostor shares all of Martin's memories, experiences, and knowledge, down to the last detail. He is, in fact, a more convincing Martin than Martin himself. Is it a conspiracy? Amnesia? Is Martin the victim of an elaborate hoax, or of his own paranoid delusion? In his high-powered new novel, Didier van Cauwelaert, the award-winning author of One-Way, explores the illusory nature of identity and the instability of the things we take for granted. Dispossessed of his job, his family, his name, and his very past, Martin Harris is an Everyman caught in an absurd and yet disturbingly convincing nightmare, one that seems to have no exit and that resists every explanation. Part moral fable, part Robert Ludlum-style thriller, Out of My Head is a fast-paced tale of one man's desperate attempt to reclaim his existence—even at the cost of his own life.

Out of My Head

Other Press

Winner of the Prix Goncourt and chosen by The Seattle Times as one of the Best Books of 2004 "One-Way is a funny and tender look at a world of shifting boundaries...Aziz Kemal is a protagonist for these times." -Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land "Outrageously funny." -The Seattle Times "Mr. van Cauwelaert has a fine, light touch and makes Aziz the most charming and gentle of liars." -The New York Sun "A mad tale, funny and cruel, tender and inventive, in which all the hypocrisy of our society is put forward without ever becoming heavy-handed." -Les Echos Hailed as a marvel and awarded France's most prestigious literary prize, One-Way recounts the comic, absurd, and all-too-believable adventures of Aziz Kemal, a young Frenchman raised as an Arab by Marseilles gypsies. Arrested for a crime he didn't commit, Aziz becomes the target of a government campaign to repatriate illegal immigrants and finds himself en route to Morocco, despite the fact that he isn't Moroccan. Accompanying Aziz is a touchingly naive and neurotic "humanitarian attache" named Jean-Pierre Schneider, who drowns his own personal woes in his zeal to build a new life for his charge in a land neither one has ever seen. It is on the plane to Morocco that events take an unexpected turn, when Aziz, pressed for details of a "birthplace" that isn't his, invents the fabulous story of Irghiz, a valley paradise hidden from the world and now in danger of ruin. From this moment on, the attache forgets his original assignment and has only one mission: to return Aziz to the Eldorado he left behind and save it from the ravages of modern progress. So begins an initiatory journey that takes Aziz, Jean-Pierre, and a disabused aristocrat across a desert both real and mythic, pursuing a vision of happiness as elusive as Irghiz itself. At once humorous and poignant, the story of this journey is "a beautifully realized blend of sensitivity, humor, intelligence, and good sense—a rich and engaging novel, filled with a lucid and compassionate humanity" (Jean-Claude Lebrun).

One-Way

Orange Am're(l')

Literary

POINTS

187pages. poche. Poche. En résumé, course poursuite entre 2 êtres, s et rsquo;aiment-ils vraiment, est-il son père, que cherche t-elle. ELLE elle mène le bal, jusqu et rsquo;au bout, les dernières pages, ELLE est si présente, mais absente, pour combien de temps encore ? Triste. Et si le poisson d' et rsquo;amour c et rsquo;était ce piranha mort dans son bocal de formol, comme une relique ?

Poisson d'amour

Collection Chouette - Francais: Francais CP

Editions Hatier

Karine Apres La Vie (French Edition)

Contemporary

Distribooks, Inc

Le Principe de Pauline

« A trente ans, Alice recouvre la vue. Pour Jules, son chien guide, c’est une catastrophe. Il perd son rôle, son but sur terre. En plus, on les sépare. Alors, il se raccroche à moi. En moins de vingt-quatre heures, ce labrador en déroute me fait perdre mon emploi, mon logement, tous mes repères. Il ne me reste plus qu’une obsession – la sienne : retrouver la jeune femme qui nous a brisé le cœur. »\nEntre une miraculée de la chirurgie et un vendeur de macarons, une histoire de renaissance mutuelle et de passion volcanique orchestrée, avec l’énergie du désespoir, par le plus roublard des chiens d’aveugle.\nUne adorable histoire d’amour en forme de conte de fées. Héléna Villovitch, Elle\nUne comédie romantique, réjouissante, pleine de surprises ! Pierre Vavasseur, Le Parisien\nOn aime compter au panthéon des lettres françaises un maître de la « feel-good fiction », ces romans qui font du bien. Julie Malaure, Le Point

Jules

La Personne de confiance

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