A01=Celia Houdart
A01=Clia Houdart
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Armenia
atmosphere
Author_Celia Houdart
Author_Clia Houdart
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B06=K. E. Gormley
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COP=United States
crime
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exploration
France
French
injustice
innocence
Italy
Language_English
minimalism
minimalist
murder
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Pisa
police
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softlaunch
trial
whodunit
Product details
- ISBN 9781628973273
- Dimensions: 127 x 177mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In Pisa, Italy, an Armenian immigrant named Marco Iprannossian sits in jail awaiting judgment on the attempted murder of a local official.
The novel opens on the first day of his hearing—three years after his arrest—and follows the lives of Marco, his friends on the outside, the judge presiding over this case, her husband, and their teenage daughter, Lea. Through deceptively structured as a crime novel, Quarry's real concerns are both far smaller and far larger than those of a typical whodunit.
Houdart's modern tale, presented in a series of brief, elliptical snapshots, is a precision-cut gem of literary minimalism.
After graduating from Paris's École Normal Supérieure, Célia Houdart spent several years in the world of avant-garde theatre before dedicating herself to fiction. Quarry is her third novel. K. E. Gormley is a librarian and translator originally from Baltimore, now living in the Philadelphia suburbs.
