Vacated Landscape

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Author: Lahougue, JeanAn editor at a Parisian publishing house receives a manuscript by someone calling himself Desiderio – a manuscript that bears an eerie resemblance to his own life & to a book he was planning to write on a Renaissance painter of the same name. He decides to use his vacation time to visit the place from which it was sent – the quaint seaside town of V. 'Vacated Landscape' is both ingeniously fractal and exuberantly byzantine. It is the first novel of Jean Lahougue’s to be translated into English. The narrator decides to play amateur detective and track down the writer of the manuscript, unaware that as he becomes more deeply enmeshed in the mystery, the streets of V. will bend around him like a Möbius strip to form a loop that seems to offer no escape.Jean Lahougue (born 1945) is a French novelist. A lifelong Agatha Christie fan, he won (and refused) the Prix Médicis in 1980 for 'Comptine des Heigh', a puzzle-novel patterned on 'Ten Little Indians'.ISBN 9781939663979. Wakefield Press. pb. 240 pages. 20.3 x 13.3 cm.available to order Show more