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Author / Creator:	Reza, Yasmina, author.
Uniform title:	Babylone. English
Imprint:	New York : Seven Stories Press, [2018]
Description:	202 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction. Murder -- Investigation. Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. Novels. Thrillers (Fiction) Novels. Thrillers (Fiction)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11673627

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Other authors / contributors:	Asher, Linda, translator.
ISBN:	9781609808327 1609808320
Notes:	Translated from the French.
Summary:	Elisabeth is a woman whose curiosity and passion far exceed the borders of her quiet middle-class life. She befriends a neighbor, organizes a small dinner party. And then, quite suddenly, finds herself embarked with him on an adventure that is one part vaudeville and one part high tragedy. A quiet novel of manners turns into a police procedural thriller. Her motivations for risking everything she has are never transparent. In a world where matters of life and death are nearly always transported to a clinical setting, whether it be a hospital or a courtroom, here each character must confront them unassisted.

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Summary:	Elisabeth, a pensive, memory-laden science professional in a long and tender marriage, has barely befriended their touching younger neighbour when in a fit of blind pain over a scornful scolding the man kills his beloved and appealing wife. Elisabeth is drawn, out of sympathy, to help her friend cover up his crime. Her account of her unaccountable impulse moves into a quick-moving, canny police procedural - humour and sorrow, life. An absorbing tale from the skilled hand of playwright/novelist Yasmina Reza.
Item Description:	Translated from the French.
Physical Description:	202 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9781609808327 1609808320