Lightning

Name: Lightning
Author: Jean Echenoz

by Jean Echenoz

Novel charting a scientist's sudden disappearance and presumed death

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Jean Echenoz

French author associated with the Editions de Minuit whose deceptively light novels hide a sophisticated engagement with the nature of fiction. I'm Gone won the Prix Goncourt and Running is a brilliant biographical novella about Emil Zatopek.

More by Jean Echenoz

I'm GoneNovel of escape and disappearance in compressed, minimalist prose
RunningAthletic novel following a distance runner's obsessive dedication and decline
PianoStory of a concert pianist's redemption through music and love
RavelBiographical novel of composer Maurice Ravel's life and creative genius