The disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
By: by Raymond Brunet ; translated and with an afterword by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Publisher: Contraband
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781908643605; 9781908643612
Subjects: Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Work titles: Disparition d'Adèle Bedeau
Description: Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adele Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. But one day, she simply vanishes into thin air. When Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance, Manfred's repressed world is shaken to its core and he is forced to confront the dark secrets of his past. 'The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau' is a literary mystery novel that is, at heart, an engrossing psychological portrayal of an outsider pushed to the limit by his own feverish imagination.
Notes: Translated from the French.