# The Anomaly - Paperback

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by **Hervé Le Tellier** (Author), **Adriana Hunter** (Translator)

****A _New York Times_ bestseller and a "Best Thriller of the Year**"**

**Winner of the Goncourt Prize and now an international phenomenon, this dizzying, whip-smart novel blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight.**

_Who would we be if we had made different choices? Told that secret, left that relationship, written that book? We all wonder--the passengers of Air France 006 will find out._

In their own way, they were all living double lives when they boarded the plane:  
Blake, a respectable family man who works as a contract killer.  
Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star who uses his womanizing image to hide that he's gay.  
Joanna, a Black American lawyer pressured to play the good old boys' game to succeed with her Big Pharma client.  
Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet largely obscure writer suddenly on the precipice of global fame.  
About to start their descent to JFK, they hit a shockingly violent patch of turbulence, emerging on the other side to a reality both perfectly familiar and utterly strange. As it charts the fallout of this logic-defying event, _The Anomaly_ takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House and a top-secret hangar.  
In Hervé Le Tellier's most ambitious work yet, high literature follows the lead of a bingeable Netflix series, drawing on the best of genre fiction from "chick lit" to mystery, while also playfully critiquing their hallmarks. An ingenious, timely variation on the doppelgänger theme, it taps into the parts of ourselves that elude us most.

### Author Biography

**Hervé Le Tellier** is a writer, journalist, mathematician, food critic, and teacher. He has been a member of the Oulipo group since 1992 and one of the "papous" of the famous France Culture radio show. He has published numerous books of stories, essays, memoir, and novels, including the Goncourt Prize-winning _The Anomaly_, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, _All Happy Families_, _Electrico W_, and _Enough About Love_.

**Adriana Hunter** studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than ninety books, including Véronique Olmi's _Bakhita_ and Hervé Le Tellier's _Eléctrico W_, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN

**Publication Date:** November 23, 2021

## Details

- **Price:** 25.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Crime & Mystery, Fiction, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Science Fiction, Technological, Thrillers

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