The notebook
By: Agota Kristof ; translated from the French by Alan Sheridan ; afterword by Slavoj Žižek
Contributors: Sheridan, Alan, translator
Publisher: CB Editions
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780957326699
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Work titles: Grand cahier
Description: Sent to a remote village for the duration of the war, two children devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to pain and sentiment. They steal, kill, blackmail and survive; others - the cobbler, the harelipped girl who craves love, the childre's parents - are sucked into war's brutal maelstrom.
Notes: Translated from the French.