by Sébastien Japrisot · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429717402
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«Parany per a una noia» is the crime novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Edicions 62 in 1981, in paperback (128 pages, in Catalan).
A beach house in a French tourist resort burns down completely; inside are two girls, one rich and one poor, and only one survives, disfigured by the flames and with total amnesia. Cosmetic surgery gives her a new face, but not her memory. She no longer knows if she is the heiress or her friend, nor if she is a killer or the victim being sought.
Volume 5 of the «Seleccions de la Cua de Palla» collection; translation of «Piège pour Cendrillon» (1962), winner of the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1963.
For readers of classic crime fiction and psychological suspense with identity games.
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.
