by Daniel Rondeau · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246688310
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«Mécaniques du chaos» is the novel by Daniel Rondeau, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (464 pages, in French).
A polyphonic novel that reads like a thriller. It follows Grimaud, a French archaeologist in Tunisia; Habiba, a Somali teenager who survived a shipwreck, and Harry, a young orphan from the Paris suburbs. Dirty money and terrorism set the pace, from the capitals of the East to the Libyan desert and the heart of Parisian power.
It won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française in 2017, an award featured on the cover of this edition.
Suitable for readers of contemporary literary fiction in French, especially those seeking political and social novels with a thriller pace.
Daniel Rondeau is a French writer, editor, and diplomat. Born in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, he studied law at Panthéon-Assas where the spirit of May 68 saw him embrace Maoism and join the proletariat by working from 1970 to 1974 in a factory in Nancy making insulation. He worked for France Inter's Nord-Est radio station from 1977, before moving to Paris, where he worked for the newspapers Libération (1982–1985) Le Nouvel Observateur (1985–1998) and L'Express (1998–2007). He was French ambassador to Malta (2008–2011) and to UNESCO (2011–2013). He has written fiction, reportage, literary criticism and political commentary, and for his oeuvre won the Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand in 1998. After unsuccessfully standing for election to the Académie Française in 2011 and 2016, he was elected to seat 8 in 2019.
