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Annual Banquet of the Gravedigger's Guild

Annual Banquet of the Gravedigger's Guild

FolkloreLiterary Fiction
Pages
432
Published
2023
Language
English

Synopsis

A French ethnologist moves to a remote village to research its ancient gravediggers' guild, hoping to write his thesis. He finds himself drawn into the strange traditions and lives of the villagers, blurring the lines between reality, history, and the supernatural. This novel explores themes of death, memory, and the human condition through a unique, darkly humorous lens.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkThought-ProvokingPhilosophicalAtmospheric
Fish Out of WaterUnreliable Narrator

Genres

Folklore Literary Fiction Magical Realism

Authors

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Frank Wynne

Frank Wynne is a literary translator who brings French and Spanish works to English readers. He is known for translating Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 2 and Pedro Almodóvar’

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Mathias Énard

Mathias Énard (born January 11, 1972, in Niort, France) is a French novelist and translator. He studied Persian and Arabic at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris and lived for extended periods in the Middle East, including Syria and Lebanon, before settling in Barcelona, where he taught Arabic at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His novels, including Zone (2008), Street of Thieves (2012), and Compass (2015), draw on this background to explore the connecti...