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In Unforgivable, a mesmerizing literary thriller, the sudden disappearance of famous actress leaves her father's life in disarray.
Translated from the French by Euan Cameron
Simon & Schuster
March 2010
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Featuring: Francis
256 pages
ISBN: 143916441X
EAN: 9781439164419
Hardcover
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The Basque landscape is a delightfully sinister setting for the taut and cinematic Unforgivable, the #1 bestseller from French novelist Philippe Djian. Francis, a sixty-year-old author, has not written a word in the twelve years since his first wife and eldest daughter died in a tragic accident. Now his surviving daughter, Alice, a famous actress, has vanished, leaving her husband and twin daughters clueless as to her whereabouts. Francisβs second marriage of ten years, to Judith, is also falling apart, and his distress is compounded by his anxiety over Aliceβs disappearance. He finds comfort in the company of an old friend, Anne-Marguerite, along with her son, JΓ©rΓ©mie, a laconic criminal attempting to remake himself in the outside world. But when Francis employs them to uncover evidence of his second wifeβs affair and to help find his daughter, things go from bad to worse. An exquisite storyteller and prose writer, author Djian "has no equal . . . as the interrogator of the relationships that bind human beings together" (Vogue, France). A mesmerizing literary thriller, Unforgivable is full of setbacks and revelationsβan unsettling and starkly elegant meditation on family bonds, betrayals, and reconciliation.
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