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Days of Undertow
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Delivery starting from October 12, 2026
A masterclass in psychological thriller-writing, reminiscent of an Alfred Hitchcock film scripted by Virginia Woolf.
In November 2022, a woman receives a phone call from the police. A body has been found on the beach in Le Havre, the city where she grew up. In the victim's pocket, a cinema ticket bears her phone number. Who was this man, and how was he connected to her?
The police officers' persistent questions spark an agonizing search through the narrow streets of the city she left behind, as well as the corridors of her own memory. Over the course of a single day, she will wander through a Le Havre surrounded by forgotten faces and past shadows, as the harbor waves seem to dance to the rhythm of memories. What remains standing after twenty years of absence?
A personal urban odyssey that explores how we continuously rebuild ourselves upon ruins and learn to move forward alongside the ghosts of the past.
Author:
Maylis de Kerangal
Edited by:
Dimitris Papakostas, Apostolos Papakostas
Translation:
Stela Zoumboulaki
Cover design/illustration:
Christos Kourtoglou
Date of publication:
12/10/2026
Pages:
232
Dimensions:
13.3 x 20.5 cm
ISBN:
978-960-572-854-0
Publication:
2026
Categories:
Literature, Books, Foreign Literature
Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal was born in Toulon in 1967 and grew up in Le Havre. She has written eight novels, including Naissance d’un pont (Prix Franz Hessel 2010, Prix Médicis 2010), Réparer les vivants (Grand Prix RTL-Lire, France Culture and Télérama Student Choice Novel of the Year), and Un chemin de tables, the English edition of which (The Cook) was a New York Times Editors' Choice. She lives in Paris.
