Special Envoy (eBook)

A Spy Novel
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Longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award

"Special Envoy is an exceedingly French spy thriller."
-New York Times Book Review

A dazzling satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita, part Pink Panther and part Le Carré-from one of the world's preeminent authors

Jean Echenoz's sly and playful novels have won critical and popular acclaim in France, where he has won the Prix Goncourt, as well as in the United States, where he has been profiled by the New Yorker and called the"most distinctive voice of his generation" by the Washington Post. With his wonderfully droll and intriguing new work, Special Envoy, Echenoz turns his hand to the espionage novel. When published in France, it stormed the bestseller lists.

Special Envoy begins with an old general in France's intelligence agency asking his trusted lieutenant Paul Objat for ideas about a person he wants for a particular job: someone to aid the destabilization of Kim Jong-un's regime in North Korea. Objat has someone in mind: Constance, an attractive, restless, bored woman in a failing marriage to a washed-up pop musician. Soon after, she is abducted by Objat's cronies and spirited away into the lower depths of France's intelligence bureaucracy where she is trained for her mission.

What follows is a bizarre tale of kidnappings, murders and mutilations, bad pop songs and great sex, populated by a cast of oddballs and losers. Set in Paris, rural central France, and Pyongyang, Special Envoy is joyously strange and unpredictable, full of twists and ironic digressions-and, in the words of L'Express, "a pure gem, a delight."

Longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award

"Special Envoy is an exceedingly French spy thriller."
-New York Times Book Review

A dazzling satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita, part Pink Panther and part Le Carré-from one of the world's preeminent authors

Jean Echenoz's sly and playful novels have won critical and popular acclaim in France, where he has won the Prix Goncourt, as well as in the United States, where he has been profiled by the New Yorker and called the"most distinctive voice of his generation" by the Washington Post. With his wonderfully droll and intriguing new work, Special Envoy, Echenoz turns his hand to the espionage novel. When published in France, it stormed the bestseller lists.

Special Envoy begins with an old general in France's intelligence agency asking his trusted lieutenant Paul Objat for ideas about a person he wants for a particular job: someone to aid the destabilization of Kim Jong-un's regime in North Korea. Objat has someone in mind: Constance, an attractive, restless, bored woman in a failing marriage to a washed-up pop musician. Soon after, she is abducted by Objat's cronies and spirited away into the lower depths of France's intelligence bureaucracy where she is trained for her mission.

What follows is a bizarre tale of kidnappings, murders and mutilations, bad pop songs and great sex, populated by a cast of oddballs and losers. Set in Paris, rural central France, and Pyongyang, Special Envoy is joyously strange and unpredictable, full of twists and ironic digressions-and, in the words of L'Express, "a pure gem, a delight."

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VerlagThe New Press
EinbandAdobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr2017
Seitenangabe160 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Masse1'163 KB
PlattformEPUB
AutorEchenoz, Jean / Taylor, Sam (Übers.)

Über den Autor Jean Echenoz

Jean Echenoz was born in 1947 in Vaucluse, France. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Cherokee, Double Jeopardy, Chopin's Move, Big Blondes, I'm Gone (winner of the Prix Goncourt), Piano, Ravel, Running, Lightning, Special Envoy, and Command Performance (NYRB Classics). His work has received a great number of literary prizes, among them the Prix Goncourt, the Prix Médicis, and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris.Mark Polizzotti has translated over sixty books from the French, including Arthur Rimbaud's The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings (NYRB Poets), and is the author of thirteen books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, Why Surrealism Matters, and Jump Cuts: Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics. He lives in New York.

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