{"product_id":"9781804270226","title":"The Birthday Party","description":"Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbour, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar car rolling up the driveway. And as night falls, strangers stalk the houses, unleashing a nightmarish chain of events.     Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a deft unravelling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer.; 504 pages; 18\/01\/2023\u003cdiv class=\"goodreadr\" data-isbn=\"9781804270226\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56457530212734,"sku":"9781804270226","price":19.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/1298\/0350\/files\/9781804270226.jpg?v=1761346389","url":"https:\/\/it-book.co.uk\/products\/9781804270226","provider":"IT-Book","version":"1.0","type":"link"}