Fuir — Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Prix Médicis 2005: a novel of distance, desire and disappearance.

From Shanghai to Beijing, then to the island of Elba, a man moves through trains, airports and hotel rooms while his relationship with Marie seems to escape him. A phone call, a night journey and sudden news turn travel into a tense, sensory experience in which time, love and absence continually shift.

Fuir is the second volume of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Marie cycle, after Faire l’amour. Precise, elegant and cinematic, the novel won the Prix Médicis in 2005.

This “Double” edition also includes Écrire, c’est fuir, a conversation between Jean-Philippe Toussaint and his Chinese publisher Chen Tong.

Book in French. Condition: like new / État : comme neuf. The cover, spine and pages are very clean, with no annotations or significant creasing.

Les Éditions de Minuit, collection “Double”, 2009. 192 pages. ISBN: 978-2-7073-2095-7.