by Sébastien Japrisot · Harvill Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781860467738
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«One Deadly Summer» is the suspense novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Harvill Press in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In a provincial town in 1970s France, young Eliane, known as Elle, arouses desire and fascination in men and mistrust among women. After settling with Fiorimond, a local mechanic, no one suspects she harbors a plan to avenge a crime committed against her family.
The work originally appeared in French as «L'été meurtrier» and won the Prix des Deux-Magots and the Martin Beck Award.
For readers of crime fiction and psychological suspense, with an enigmatic protagonist.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
