The Anomaly, Herve Le Tellier
The Anomaly, Herve Le Tellier
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The Anomaly

Author: Hervé Le Tellier, Adriana Hunter

Narrator: Dominic Hoffman

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2021


Synopsis

Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight.

In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna, a formidable lawyer whose flaws have caught up with her; and Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet commercially unsuccessful writer who suddenly becomes a cult hit.
 
All of them believed they had double lives. None imagined just how true that was.
 
A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic, The Anomaly explores the part of ourselves that eludes us. This witty variation on the doppelgänger theme, which takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House, proves to be Hervé Le Tellier’s most ambitious work yet.

About The Author

Hervé Le Tellier is a writer, journalist, mathematician, food critic, and teacher. He has been a member of the Oulipo group since 1992 and one of the “papous” of the famous France Culture radio show. His books include A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies), Enough About Love, Eléctrico W, and All Happy Families.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on May 16, 2024

Never travel by plane… Otherwise you’ll be caught by some sinister and enigmatic physical phenomenon… And mournfully repeat the fate of the certain personages from this fabulous opus… In addition to all their misfortune the characters of The Anomaly read The Anomaly novel written by the character of......more

Goodreads review by Meike on November 16, 2021

Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2020 Soon available in English: The Anomaly Le Tellier investigates how people cope (or don't cope) when their idea of reality gets defeated: A flight from Paris to New York is caught in a storm, then lands in the US - twice, once in March, once in June 2021. And it's the......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on July 25, 2022

“The Anomaly” by Herve’ Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter, is a international bestseller and the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt award. This novel defies genre specification. It’s a literary thriller with speculative fiction that encompasses philosophical and metaphysical elements. Or is it......more