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Rien Ne Va Plus

(1991)
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The story is simple: a love affair ends badly. A woman and a man marry, then cruelty, infidelity, and divorce. But this novel tells their story twice, from opposing perspectives. Our sympathies are inverted; we don't know whom to trust; the distinction between truth and deception blurs, and then seems simply to dissolve. The novel shifts deftly between endless oppositions: lover and beloved, angel and demon, master and slave, reader and writer. But inevitably both stories must arrive at the point of rien ne va plus: the moment in roulette when all bets are off and you either win or lose--the moment when the game becomes fate.

Margarita Karapanou's third novel is an extraordinary experience in fiction: devastating and brave and true.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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