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A mesmerizing new tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of Pig Tales—the writer The New Yorker hailed as France's "best young novelist." Ever since Pig Tales (described by Booklist as "Animal Farm meets The Metamorphosis") became an immediate bestseller in France and was optioned by the great filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, Marie Darrieussecq has been an international literary superstar. With her stunning follow-up novel, My Phantom Husband—an immediate #1 bestseller—Darrieussecq continued to earn critical acclaim. Undercurrents is her greatest triumph to date. A mother and daughter mysteriously disappear to a deserted seaside town in Spain, but the main character emerges as the sea itself, as Darrieussecq evokes the varied moods and rich palette of the ocean with poetic genius. From seemingly simple events, Darrieussecq deftly plunges the reader into a sensual, surrealistic literary experience grounded in—yet worlds away from—day-to-day reality. Called "truly inspired" by Elle and "gripping" by Le Monde, Undercurrents fulfills and exceeds our expectations of this talented young author.
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Thomas Harrington
reviewed Undercurrents on March 20, 2020
Undercurrents
"She take of her shoes, shakes them, pours out the
glistening grains. The humidity has made the sand stick
together; her heels pull out clumps, cubes. The night is
black and gashed with foam. The waves fall from high in
the sky and the moon tumbles in slivery glints that shear,
crackling, through the shadows. If you stretched out your
hand, straight ahead, you could just touch them with your
fingertips."
"The fluorescent sea seems to have absorbed the day's
energy to melt it into shining, lacquered waves. The sea
rises and falls, slowly, without haste, strong in its mass,
full of octopuses, whales, hurricanes, shipwrecks, bestowing
on the city the edge of its presence. It makes her feel grown-
up to be here, alone on the seashore; to stay here, at the
precise place where land and sea come together."
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