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Un roman à chausse-trappes sur les illusions de l'identité.Sur une plage au sud de l'Angleterre, un chien et son maître découvrent un cadavre rejeté par la mer. Un policier est chargé de reconstituer le passé de la victime, Henry, un vagabond, qui après avoir erré plus de vingt ans dans la région, s'était installé dans la petite ville balnéaire. Pourquoi et par qui Henry, identifié grâce à ses vêtements, a été tué ? L'enquête s'ouvre, se ramifie, s'épaissit. Les faux-semblants s'accumulent.Dans ce roman rien n'est ce qu'il semble être, à commencer par le livre qui se présente comme un roman policier mais est une remarquable réflexion sur l'impossibilité à donner un sens à une vie.«Un roman virtuose, mélancolique, saturé de silences, sur l'impossibilité de connaître qui que ce soit avec certitude, sur les masques accumulés, les fragments additionnés qui constituent une identité.»-Les Inrockuptibles«Surprenant, amusant et troublant. Un tour de force. Un auteur à découvrir, puis à suivre.»-LivresHebdo
400 pages, Pocket Book
Published February 1, 2012
About the author
Jonathan Buckley
76 books53 followersJonathan Buckley was born in Birmingham, grew up in Dudley, and studied English Literature at Sussex University, where he stayed on to take an MA. From there he moved to King’s College, London, where he researched the work of the Scottish poet/artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. After working as a university tutor, stage hand, maker of theatrical sets and props, bookshop manager, decorator and builder, he was commissioned in 1987 to write the Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto.
He went on to become an editorial director at Rough Guides, and to write further guidebooks on Tuscany & Umbria and Florence, as well as contributing to the Rough Guide to Classical Music and Rough Guide to Opera.
His first novel, The Biography of Thomas Lang, was published by Fourth Estate in 1997. It was followed by Xerxes (1999), Ghost MacIndoe (2001), Invisible (2004), So He Takes The Dog (2006), Contact (2010) and Telescope (2011). His eighth novel, Nostalgia, was published in 2013.
From 2003 to 2005 he held a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at the University of Sussex, and from 2007 to 2011 was an Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, for whom he convenes a reading group in Brighton.
He went on to become an editorial director at Rough Guides, and to write further guidebooks on Tuscany & Umbria and Florence, as well as contributing to the Rough Guide to Classical Music and Rough Guide to Opera.
His first novel, The Biography of Thomas Lang, was published by Fourth Estate in 1997. It was followed by Xerxes (1999), Ghost MacIndoe (2001), Invisible (2004), So He Takes The Dog (2006), Contact (2010) and Telescope (2011). His eighth novel, Nostalgia, was published in 2013.
From 2003 to 2005 he held a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at the University of Sussex, and from 2007 to 2011 was an Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, for whom he convenes a reading group in Brighton.
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