num_pages: 128
description: A little thing happened to me. Which could have just as easily happened to you. You re on vacation in a hotel with your son in a small village and you re about to go see some friends but something holds you back a mysterious reticence that prevents you from going to find them. Here is the novel of this reticence small and specific and of the fears that it instigates little by little. Because not only are your friends not there when you do decide to go find them but several days later you find a dead cat in the harbor a black cat floating in front of you on the water . . .In Jean-Philippe Toussaint 's take on the detective novel we find a man on vacation in a tiny village where a writer named Biaggi appears to be keeping him under surveillance. To what end? Ah but it 's far more pleasant to enjoy the Mediterranean night air than to look for answers make deductions or get upset isn't it?
language: English
title: Reticence
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press