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At 40, the great boxer Max Le Corre was enjoying a renaissance, back at the top of the ticket after a long absence. When he wasn't in the ring, he worked as a driver for the mayor, Quentin Le Bars. Above all, he was a father to Laura, his 20-year-old daughter who recently returned home after trying her hand at modeling. Quentin had helped Max when he was down on his luck, a seemingly washed-up fighter, and now Max hoped he would help Laura find her bearings in town. But Laura's meeting with Quentin reveals a darker side to the politician, setting in motion a chain of events that will pit Max against his benefactor. With deceptively simple, evocative prose, Tanguy Viel has crafted a brilliant takedown of the power imbalances that allow #MeToo situations to occur and fester. In this shrewd, timely novel with the allure of old-school noir, an aging boxer and his daughter fight back against political corruption and sexual abuse. At 40, the great boxer Max Le Corre was enjoying a renaissance, back at the top of the ticket after a long absence. When he wasn't in the ring, he worked as a driver for the mayor, Quentin Le Bars. Above all, he was a father to Laura, his 20-year-old daughter who recently returned home after trying her hand at modeling. Quentin had helped Max when he was down on his luck, a seemingly washed-up fighter, and now Max hoped he would help Laura find her bearings in town. But Laura's meeting with Quentin reveals a darker side to the politician, setting in motion a chain of events that will pit Max against his benefactor. With deceptively simple, evocative prose, Tanguy Viel has crafted a brilliant takedown of the power imbalances that allow #MeToo situations to occur and fester.

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“The Girl You Call has DEPTH. She is a real woman, not a ‘perfect victim,’ which of course no real woman ever actually is. Viel sets each sentence with illusion-shattering precision, displaying a phenomenal understanding not only of human character but how to wrest it up into the surface of our language from the primal deep.” —Katherine Forbes Riley, author of The Bobcat “Tanguy Viel packs an incomprehensible level of tension and emotional reverb into such a slim novel. The book is noir at its finest, moody and engrossing while holding your rapt attention with self-assured ease.” —Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux Praise for Article 353: “Sharp and memorable…a dark fable that reads like one of Georges Simenon’s ‘romans durs’ or psychological novels, which winningly fuse together lean prose, queasy atmospherics, raw emotion, and moral conundrums…[Viel] satisfies with a potent concoction of mystery, complexity, and tightly coiled tension.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “[A] beguiling noir…Arresting metaphors enliven the spare prose…Viel should win new American fans with this elegant effort.” —Publishers Weekly

Praise for Article 353: “Sharp and memorable…a dark fable that reads like one of Georges Simenon’s ‘romans durs’ or psychological novels, which winningly fuse together lean prose, queasy atmospherics, raw emotion, and moral conundrums…[Viel] satisfies with a potent concoction of mystery, complexity, and tightly coiled tension.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “[A] beguiling noir…Arresting metaphors enliven the spare prose…Viel should win new American fans with this elegant effort.” —Publishers Weekly

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Tanguy Viel was born in Brest in 1973. He is the author of several novels, including The Absolute Perfection of Crime (winner of the Prix Feneon and the Prix litteraire de la vocation), Beyond Suspicion, The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan, and Article 353 (Other Press, 2019), which won the Grand prix RTL Lire and the Prix Fran ois-Mauriac de la region Aquitaine. He lives near Orleans, France. William Rodarmor has translated some forty-five books and screenplays in genres ranging from literary fiction to espionage and fantasy. His translations for Other Press include Article 353, by Tanguy Viel; The Blumkin Project, by Christian Salmon; The State of Israel vs. the Jews, by Sylvain Cypel; and And Their Children After Them, by Nicolas Mathieu, which won the 2021 Albertine translation prize.

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