Hors de moi
Out of My Head
Author : Cauwelaert
Publisher : Albin Michel
Parution date : 3
EAN : 9782226137449

Description

From U.S. Publisher description:

Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn’t know him, another man is living in his house under his name, and the neighbors think he’s a raving lunatic. Worse, not a single person—family, colleague, or doctor—can vouch for him. Worse still, the impostor shares all of Martin’s memories, experiences, and knowledge, down to the last detail. He is, in fact, a more convincing Martin than Martin himself. Is it a conspiracy? Amnesia? Is Martin the victim of an elaborate hoax, or of his own paranoid delusion?

In his high-powered new novel, Didier van Cauwelaert, the award-winning author of One-Way, explores the illusory nature of identity and the instability of the things we take for granted. Dispossessed of his job, his family, his name, and his very past, Martin Harris is an Everyman caught in an absurd and yet disturbingly convincing nightmare, one that seems to have no exit and that resists every explanation. Part moral fable, part Robert Ludlum-style thriller, Out of My Head is a fast-paced tale of one man’s desperate attempt to reclaim his existence—even at the cost of his own life.


Author
Didier Cauwelaert : Didier van Cauwelaert is the author of numerous novels including Un Aller simple, winner of the 1994 Prix Goncourt (US publication, One-Way, The Other Press, 2003) and Hors de moi (US publication, Out of my head, The Other Press, 2003). His novel Le Passe-Muraille was made into a Broadway play, L’Amour.