From the author of Camera, a 2008 New York Times Editor's Choice, comes a novel of love and dislocation.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint is the author of nine novels, and the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Decembre for The Truth about Marie. His writing has been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Tati, the films of Jim Jarmusch, and even Charlie Chaplin. Jean-Philippe Toussaint is the author of nine novels, and the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Decembre for The Truth about Marie. His writing has been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Tati, the films of Jim Jarmusch, and even Charlie Chaplin.
It is further testament to Toussaint's standing as a master
craftsman of the contemporary novel that he can give such shifting
insouciance its weight. --Lee Rouke
Running Away is Jean-Philippe Toussaint at his most mature, tender,
and complex. --Josh Maday
Toussaint, a brilliant and prize-winning French author, dives deep
into how we stretch ourselves thin between places in our attempt to
be with one another in this stunning novel. --Sean Farrell
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