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Not only is it the finest first novel I have read in many years but it isquite simply one of the most original and brilliantly executed works offiction by any c... » 

Not only is it the finest first novel I have read in many years but it isquite simply one of the most original and brilliantly executed works offiction by any contemporary writer I know of.Paul Auster An infraredview of Sex and the City a snapshot plunged in an acrid bath.Globe and MailWith an extraordinary sense of the mechanisms of love and the empathy of asaint for the human race Celine Curiol gives us the most original and the bestnew book of the year.Marie Claire The troubled lovestruck youngwoman... works as an announcer at Paris famed Gare du Nord train stationAllshe knows about the towns . . . are their nameswhile seducing us with herelliptical humor existential musings and edgy charm.Elle Magazine Alonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris Gare du Nord train station.Obsessed with a man attached to another woman she wanders through the world ofdinner parties shopping excursions and chance sexual encounters with a senseof haunting expectation. As something begins to happen between her and the manshe loves she finds herself at a crossroads pitting her desire against hersanity. This smashing debut novel sparkles with mordant humor and sexy charm.Celine Curiol is a journalist who has worked for various French mediaincluding Liberation Radio France and BBC Afrique. Her second novel and atravel book on Sierra Leone have recently been published in France. Originallyfrom Lyon Curiol lives in New York City where she is at work on her thirdnovel. «