Dog Island

Zusatztext A timely and elegant examination of the migrant situation in the Mediterranean from the point of view of a remote, volcanic island that depends on tourism for its survival and lives in fear of negative publicity as a result. Informationen zum Autor Philippe Claudel is a university lecturer, novelist, film director and scriptwriter. He has written 14 novels that have been translated into various languages. He was born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe in 1962 where he still lives. In 2009 his film I've Loved You So Long ( Il y a longtemps que je t'aime ), which draws upon Claudel's eleven years teaching in prisons, won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language film. Among his novels, Grey Souls won the Prix Renaudot in France, the American Gumshoe Award and the Swedish Martin Beck award. Brodeck's Report won the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Award. Euan Cameron is an editor and translator. Madeleine is his first novel. He worked in book publishing and as a literary journalist for many years before becoming a translator from French. His translations include works by Julien Green, Paul Morand, Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick Modiano and Philippe Claudel, as well as biographies of Marcel Proust and Irène Némirovsky. He was appointed Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011. Klappentext From the author of Grey Souls and Brodeck's Report: a chilling island fable of murder, exploitation and complicity Zusammenfassung From the author of Grey Souls and Brodeck's Report: a chilling island fable of murder, exploitation and complicity

Product details

• Authors: Philippe Claudel, Claudel Philippe
• Assisted by: Euan Cameron (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2020
• EAN: 9781529400649
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-0064-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Sea Stories, Fiction in translation, Mediterranean Sea, Migration, immigration & emigration, Modern and contemporary fiction