Gallic Noir

Written over a 15-year period from the mid '90s, Garnier's short novels weave a profound and darkly comic tapestry of human experience. Volume 3 includes The Eskimo Solution, which combines the story of a struggling writer with excerpts of the crime novel he's writing, which will spill over into his own life; Low Heights, in which a cantankerous retiree falls for his nurse and finds himself confronted with a man claiming to be his long-lost son... but the family reunion is threatened by the vultures circling above; and Too Close to the Edge, the tale of a quiet retirement in the foothills of the Alps turned upside down.
GARNIER'S STARTLING AND SURPRISINGLY MOVING NOVELS CENTRE ON STRANGE GOINGS-ON IN FRENCH PROVINCIAL SETTINGS, CREATING A WORLD THAT IS AT ONCE FAMILIAR AND UTTERLY BIZARRE, The combination of sudden violence, surreal touches and bone-dry humour have led to Garnier's work being compared with the films of Tarantino and the Coen brothers.