Descripci�n Hardcover. Condici�n: new. Hardcover. Oscar is dead because I watched him die and did nothingAn Evening Standard 'Best New Book' of 2021A short, sharp, shock of a novel beautifully done Daily Mail'The modern day successor to Francoise Sagan' Evening StandardJestin evokes adolescent turmoil with great delicacy and poignancy Times Literary Supplement'The Summer Page-Turner You Have To Read' WaterstonesWinner of the Prix de la vocation 2019Winner of the Prix Femina de lyceens 2019Longlisted for the Crime Writers Association 'Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger' 2022Translated by Sam Taylor, translator of Lullaby by Leila Slimani, The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker and HHhH by Laurent BinetLeonard is an outsider, a seventeen-year-old uncomfortable in his own skin who is forced to endure a family camping holiday in the South of France. Tired of awkwardly creeping out of beach parties after only a couple of beers, he chooses to spend the final Friday night of the trip in bed. However, when he cannot sleep due to the sound of wild carousing outside his tent, he gets up and goes for a walk.As he wanders among the dunes, he sees Oscar, one of the cooler kids, drunk in a playground, hanging by his neck from the ropes of a swing. Frozen into inaction, he watches Oscar struggle to breathe until finally his body comes loose and falls lifeless to the ground. Unable to think straight, he buries Oscar in the sand and returns to the campsite where, oppressed by the ferocious heat and the weight of what he did and did not do, he will try to spend the remaining hours of the holiday as if nothing had happened. Told over the space of a long weekend, this intense and brilliant novel is the story of an adolescent struggling to fit in. Heatwave is a gripping psychological thriller that poses the existential question:Is doing nothing sometimes the very worst thing you can do?PRAISE FOR HEATWAVE:"This is a searingly vivid novel that depicts the torments of adolescence in a sensual, carnal way. But it is also a profound meditation on the mystery of evil, our deadly urges, and the savagery that lies deep within each of us. I loved the writing, which is spare but highly evocative, and I admired the way that the author used the enclosed world of the campsite to fuel the claustrophobic tension that mounts throughout." Leila Slimani, author of LullabyWith a searing voice, Victor Jestin captures the stale air of tents, the cheap music, the guys disguised in pink bunny suits who force you to have fun, teenagers as poignant as they are idiotic, rage, desire, absurdity. In effect, scorching GraziaEerie, propulsive, sexy, and unsettling, Victor Jestins Heatwave carries the coming-of-age novel into darkly surprising new territory. With echoes of the films of Francois Ozon, this intense, slim novel is a hot summer read that lingers long after you finish the last page Laura Sims, author of LookerA fiery page-turner Entertainment WeeklyJestins charged and chilling debut turns on a stifling vacation that descends from purgatory into a nightmarish inferno Publishers WeeklyVictor Jestin succeeds in transporting us with almost nothing, this unique style, this voiceone might almost say these whispers. A tour de force Le Figaro CultureFor his first novel, Victor Jestin displays a stunning literary talent. Its short, pitiless, polished, perfectly realized Livres Hebdo</b Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N� de ref. del art�culo: 9781471199776

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Heatwave

Victor Jestin (author), Sam Taylor (translator)

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Jestin, Victor

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Descripci�n Hardcover. Condici�n: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. London. Scribner/ Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. 2021. First Edition/First Printing (1 in number line on copyright page). Hard Cover. Red boards with metallic blue spine titles. Co-ordinating dust wrapper illustrated to both wraps. Condition of both is new. Translated from the French by Sam Taylor. Told over the space of a long weekend, this intense and brilliant novel is the story of an adolescent struggling to fit in. Heatwave is a gripping psychological thriller that poses the existential question; Is doing nothing sometimes the very worst thing you can do? Debut novel from the author. N� de ref. del art�culo: JUN14.22001

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Heatwave: An Evening Standard 'Best New Book' of 2021

Jestin, Victor

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