Nouvelle Babel | Michel Bussi | Presses de la cité

EAN : 9782258200326

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 456

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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New Babel

Michel Bussi

Release date : 03/02/2022

Never will a book have taken you on such a journey! New Babel: the new thriller from Michel Bussi.

As corrosive as Black Mirror, as entertaining as The Fifth Element, as intense as The Ice People, and with all the instantly recognisable hallmarks of a Michel Bussi novel.

In his latest novel, Michel Bussi takes us from the favelas of Rio to Kazakhstan, the edges of the Himalayas, Tristan da Cunha (the most remote archipelago in the world), Samarkand, the Burmese jungle and many another exotic location in a world that resembles our own but where technology now... In his latest novel, Michel Bussi takes us from the favelas of Rio to Kazakhstan, the edges of the Himalayas, Tristan da Cunha (the most remote archipelago in the world), Samarkand, the Burmese jungle and many another exotic location in a world that resembles our own but where technology now enables humans to be simultaneously here… and elsewhere. On a private island, rich pensioners are being murdered despite the impossibility of accessing their idyllic chosen home. It is the first crack in a utopian society where distances, borders and even traffic jams are a thing of the past. Three police officers, an ambitious journalist and a nostalgic primary school teacher all become involved in the investigation, and so begins a race against the clock to track down a mysterious blond killer who seems to have no identity in this globalised democracy where it is supposedly possible at every instant to know where you are, where you have come from and where you are going. And at the end of this path lies the new Babel… All Michel Bussi’s hallmarks are present and correct: his imaginative flair, his humour, and his subtle capacity to depict multiple realities. But as a humanist geographer, he also plays with both the codes of narrative manipulation and suspense and with the conventions of social science fiction to trace out a genuine vision of the world.

Never will a book have taken you on such a journey! New Babel: the new thriller from Michel Bussi.

As corrosive as Black Mirror, as entertaining as The Fifth Element, as intense as The Ice People, and with all the instantly recognisable hallmarks of a Michel Bussi novel.

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EAN : 9782258200326

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 456

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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