The Flood

by J.M.G. Le Clézio

Book Overview

Fran ois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside. And, as Besson moves through an ugly and threatening rain, his thoughts eventually lead to violence, first turned outward and then directed languidly against himself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141191406
• ISBN13: 9780141191409
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 0.0" x 0.0"