num_pages: 285
description: “Breathless pace. Touches effortlessly on identity, love, alcohol, and the cynicism of the business world.”— Les Echos Who hasn’t wanted to become “someone else”? Over a drink in Paris, two men give each other three years to see which one can more radically alter his life. Blin becomes a private detective. He takes on a new identity, even a surgically altered face. Gredzinski, a self-effacing corporate executive, discovers liquor that evening and rapidly yields to the sensuality and self-confidence induced by alcoholism. Things get complicated when Blin is hired by an ex-lover to find himself and when Gredzinski secretly follows his girlfriend to her home. A helter-skelter tale of humor and suspense. Winner of the literary prize RTL-Lire.
language: English
title: Someone Else
titlecomplete: Someone Else
genres: France, Roman, Literature, Contemporary, French Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 998
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Grand Prix RTL-Lire, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Bitter Lemon Press