num_pages: 128
description: Hermans wife and child are nowhere to be found and the weather in the village perfectly agreeable just days earlier has taken a sudden turn for the worse. Tourist season is over. Its time for the vacationing Parisians Herman and his family included to abandon their rural getaways and return to normal life. But where has Hermans family gone? Concerned he sets out into the oppressive rain and cold for news of their whereabouts. The community he encounters however has become alien practically unrecognizable and his urgent inquiry placed in the care of local officials quickly recedes into the background shuffled into a deck of labyrinthine bureaucracy and local custom. As time passes Herman wittingly and not becomes one with a society defined by communal surveillance strange traditions ghostly apparitions and a hospitality that verges on mania.A literary horror story about power and assimilation That Time of Year marks NDiaye once again as a contemporary master of the psychological novel. Working in the spirit of Leonora Carrington and Karen Russell NDiayes novel is a nightmarish vision otherness privilege and social amnesia told with potent clarity and a heady dose of the weird.
language: English
title: That Time of Year
publisher: Two Lines Press