Description: To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to understand the essence of the local culture, the intrepid young scholar scurries around restlessly on his moped to interview residents. But what David doesnt yet know is that here, in this seemingly ordinary place, once the stage for wars and revolutions, Death leads a dance: when one thing perishes, the Wheel of Life recycles its soul and hurls it back into the world as microbe, human, or wild animal, sometimes in the past, sometimes in the future. And once a year, Death and the living observe a temporary truce during a gargantuan three-day feast where gravediggers gorge themselves on food, drink, and language. Brimming with Mathias nards characteristic wit and encyclopedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild is a riotous novel where the edges between past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian backdrop of excess.
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Type: Novel
Book Title: Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1.3 in
Topic: Occult & Supernatural, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Item Length: 8.1 in
Author: Mathias Énard
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
