Undercurrents
1999
First Published
3.00
Average Rating
126
Number of Pages
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 French 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.
Avg Rating
3.00
Number of Ratings
285
5 STARS
12%
4 STARS
20%
3 STARS
36%
2 STARS
19%
1 STARS
12%
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Author
Marie Darrieussecq
Author · 15 books
Marie Darrieussecq was born on January 3, 1969. She was raised in a small village in the Basque Country. While finishing her PhD in French Literature, she wrote her first novel, Truismes (Pig Tales) which was published in September 1996 by Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens (POL), who have published all her subsequent novels as well. After the success of Truismes, Darrieussecq decided to quit her teaching position at the University of Lille to concentrate on writing her novels. Her first husband was a mathematician, her second is an astrophysicist. She gave birth to a son in 2001 and to a daughter in 2004. She endorsed Ségolène Royal's candidacy during the French Presidential Elections of 2007.
