La Marque et le Vide

Synopsis of La Marque et le Vide

«La Marque et le Vide» is the tragicomic suspense novel by Paul Murray, published by Belfond in paperback (563 pages, in French).

Claude, an ambitious young trader, leaves the outskirts of Paris to work at a Dublin bank during the height of the Celtic Tiger. His routine is broken when a blocked writer, Paul, proposes making him the protagonist of a book about an ordinary man. His potential fame intersects with the 2008 financial crisis in a tragicomedy with suspense.

Novel originally written in English and translated into French by Chloé Royer; it won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2016.

For readers of social satire and literary humor interested in Ireland during the financial crisis and in contemporary fiction.