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The Islanders, by Pascal Garnier
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"Dark enough to sink the hook deep into fans of noir."—Publishers Weekly
Just before Christmas in Versailles. Olivier has come to bury his mother, but the impending holidays and icy conditions have delayed the funeral.
While trapped in limbo at his mother's flat, a chance encounter brings Olivier back in touch with childhood friend Jeanne and her blind brother, Rodolphe.
Rodolphe suggests they have dinner together, along with a homeless man he's taken in. As the wine flows, dark secrets are spilled, and there's more than just hangovers to deal with the next morning . . .
The Islanders, by Pascal Garnier- Amazon Sales Rank: #1120072 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Original language: French
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.70" h x .60" w x 5.00" l, .84 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 112 pages
Review 'The combination of sudden violence, surreal touches and bone-dry humour have led to Garnier's work being compared with the films of Tarantino.' Sunday Times 'A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony.' Sunday Telegraph 'Bleak, often funny and never predictable' The Observer 'For those with a taste for Georges Simenon or Patricia Highsmith.' The Independent
About the Author Pascal Garnier est ne en 1960 et signe ses peintures Garner. Apres avoir debute comme dessinateur de bandes dessinees et styliste pour Pierre Cardin, de 1980 a nos jours, il est illustrateur storyboarder pour la publicite, la presse, l edition et professeur d arts graphiques a Paris. Ses 1/2uvres sont exposees a Paris, New York et Londres. Influences essentiellement par la bande dessinee et la publicite, ses dessins evoquent graphiquement le dynamisme des cadrages cinema du storyboard.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Top class French crime fiction By col2910 I read two books by French authors last year; Loser's Corner by Antonin Varenne and another Pascal Garnier offering from Gallic Books - The Front Seat Passenger. Both were 5 star reads, so what odds the third book from France blowing me away? IT DID!Short, dark and disturbing .... at times I felt like I was a witness to an impending car crash, but was unable to look away. It's hard to turn the pages when you're peering through fingertips that are half-covering your eyes!We meet Olivier in the aftermath of his mother's death. Olivier is a recovering alcoholic. Crossing paths with childhood friend, Jeanne who lives in the same building as his mother, soon sees Olivier with his head back in the bottle.A 20 year-old secret: a blind, controlling and jealous brother; a nosey, interfering neighbour, a tramp....plenty of alcohol and plenty of time in Jeanne's company, with the manipulative Rodolphe seething in the background and you sense we may not have a happy ending. Garnier doesn't disappoint.I'm loathe to reveal too much of the narrative, I'll leave well alone - offering a few snippets that caught my eye.......Olivier on the train journey.....A girl tottered down the aisle. Nice bum, nice shaved head, as if she knew she was pretty enough to get away with making herself ugly.Jeanne reflective.....The first black doll went on sale when she was twelve. She was sorry not to have had one, but it was too late by then. That was the age she became old overnight. One morning she got up and her toys no longer spoke to her. She touched them, turned them over in her hands as if seeing them for the first time, and began to cry. Her childhood had run away during the night.Our homeless dude.....Roland thought the frescos and sculptures representing hell were a hundred times more appealing than the pale, cold depictions of heaven.Great story - dark and memorable, populated with troubled, destructive characters, presented at a perfect length with a smooth narrative courtesy of a superb translation from Emily Boyce.Another compelling 5 star French read!Pascal Garnier sadly died in 2010. Gallic books are keeping his memory alive with their English translations of his compelling books - 6 so far with another due out this year.The Panda Theory (2012)How's the Pain? (2012)The A26 (2013)Moon in a Dead Eye (2013)The Front Seat Passenger (2014)The Islanders (2014)Boxes (2015)Thanks to Gallic books for my copy of The Islanders.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. superb character-driven French middle class tragedy By A Customer The IslandersPascal Garnier; Emily Boyce (translator)Gallic, Jun 9 2015, $13.95ISBN 9781908313720Just a few days before Christmas in -17 degrees weather, Olivier Verdier’s mother dies in Versailles. All the recovering alcoholic could think of is that she still is a pain in the ass even in death as her burial must wait until after the holiday; while he wants to return home to his wife in Nice. A snow storm adds to Olivier’s misery.While at his mom’s pad, Olivier runs into neighbor Jeanne Mangin, a schoolteacher for two decades. Twenty-five years earlier in Le Chesnay when they were teens, the cops considered Olivier and Jeanne as the prime suspects in the murder of a child she babysat. She tells him that her mother and the twins died in an accident, and she lives with her blind brother Rodolphe whose only respite from his internal rage is the Louvre. At the same time that the déjà vu relationship dynamics boil over, needing shelter from the unbearable weather, homeless Roland Toutin enters the out of control orbit.This translation of a Pascal Garnier French middle class tragedy is another superb character-driven dark novella from an author who consistently provides insightful looks at the underbelly of human interactivity. Filled with mocking graveyard humor and anticipation that things will only turn worse, this like in his previous works I read (see The A26, The Front Seat Passenger, Moon in a Dead Eye, The Panda Theory and How’s the Pain?) is why Monsieur Garnier has become one of my favorite auteurs.Harriet Klausner
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. French noir fiction at its best By wordsandpeace VERDICT: Great example of French noir fiction. Can you ever flee and escape your past or your present misery?Pascal Garnier left us a few great examples of French crime fiction before he died. I reviewed here Moon in a Dead Eye, and I definitely plan to read more by him. In case you are not in the mood for some rosy romance, but for something much more noir and meaty, go no further, The Islanders will perfectly fit the bill!The plot focuses on four characters: Olivier is married to Odile. Two years before the book opens, he went through a detox treatment. We meet him first on the train to Paris: his mother just died, and he gets there for the funerals. The severe winter conditions will require him of staying in her apartment longer than expected Jeanne is living in an apartment next to Olivier’s mother. He knocks on her door one day to check something in the phone book, and big surprise: he is face to face with the girl he had a serious affair with, twenty year before! Well, more than an affair... Rodolphe is blond and obese. He is Jeanne’s brother and lives at her place. Roland is homeless. He meets Rodolphe by accident, and Rodolphe invites him at his place. Oh, and la concierge Madeleine!! essential omnipresent French character!!The four decide one night to have a party together. With lots of consequences…I really can’t tell you more about the plot without revealing too much.I really enjoy Garnier’s writing. I’m not too sure how he does it: it’s almost minimalist, it cuts to the point, there’s nothing too much, but just enough to twist together very interesting stories.In this novel, he tackles the topic of solitude and homelessness at different levels: you may be homeless without a roof above your head, like Roland. But you may have an apartment and still never feel at home, always imagine and dream of a faraway island where things would be so much better than what you have right now. And if you got to that island, would you really be able to escape misery?Add to that the fact of hopelessness, maybe due to some physical hardships, such as blindness or obesity, or alcoholism, and things get even more complex and noir. Anger and violence relentlessly get to Garnier’s characters, like a monster they can never fully tame, like their darkest hours in their past that eventually catch up with them, whether they remember them or not.
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