Taormina
$32.70
- Paperback
136 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2026
Summary
Vacationing in Sicily in an attempt to resuscitate their doomed marriage, a hapless couple soon fall under suspicion for a horrific crime in this razor-sharp noir about migration, police corruption, and the self-absorption of the middle class.
Unhappy couple Melvil and Luisa are on holiday in Sicily in a last-ditch effort to save their broken marriage, but one wrong turn off the highway leaves them stranded in a thunderstorm in the middle of nowhere. The road is muddy, it’s late, they…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896230403 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Yves Ravey, Alyson Waters |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 136 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 146mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“The strangeness that Yves Ravey creates belongs not to an unknown world but to one that is unnervingly familiar… Every Yes Ravey novel begins in unease and deepens into perplexity.” —Patrick Kéchichian, Le Monde
“Taormina is a little jewel of pitch-black humor an ice cube in the Mediterranean heat. Ravey’s deadpan comedy is haunted by the most serious questions.” —Valérie Marin La Meslée, Le Point
Yves Ravey
Yves Ravey was born in Besançon, France, in 1953. He is the author of more than twenty novels and the winner of the Prix Marcel-Aymé and the Prix Renfer. Taormina is the first of his novels to appear in English.
Alyson Waters is an award-winning translator of some two dozen works of literary fiction and children’s literature. For NYRB she has translated works by Emmanuel Bove, Jean Giono, and Jean-Patrick Manchette. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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