NADA

Name: NADA
Brand: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Price: 36.75 AUD

By: Jean-Patrick Manchette, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator), Lucy Sante (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 27 August 2019

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200 Pages

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20.32 x 12.7 x 1.27

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This tour de force political thriller, told in Manchette's signature noir style, follows a group of far left extremists in the throes of post-1968 disillusionment.

The thrill of 1968 is long over, and the heavy fog of the 1970s has settled in. In Paris, however, the Nada gang--or groupuscule--still retains a militant attachment to its revolutionary dreams. Bringing together an anarchist orphaned by the Spanish Civil War, a Communist veteran of the French resistance, a frustrated high-school teacher of philosophy, a timid office worker, a terminal alcoholic, and one uncompromising young woman with a house in the country, Nada sets out to kidnap the American ambassador and issue a call to arms.

What could possibly go wrong?

Industry Reviews

"Nada . . . is about as far as crime fiction gets from the cosy confines of the Anglophone whodunnit." --Oscar Mardell, 3: AM Magazine

"As always, [Manchette] deftly keeps generalizations at bay and crafts a novel that exposes, critiques, but, most importantly, entertains. . . . The lasting impact of Nada, and of all Manchette novels, owes to the author's skill at portraying the assault of the political on the personal, without ever making it explicit." --Tom Roberge, Los Angeles Review of Books

"Writing so dark it gives a new meaning to the word noir." --Frederick Mezies

"Post Manchette, crime fiction in France acquired a stamp and a tone that turned it once more into an invasion of the everyday, a belligerent raid on appearances, a violent revolution in a genre hitherto guilty of complacency but now startlingly chilling. And Nada is unarguably Manchette's masterpiece." --Paco Ignacio Taibo II

"[Manchette] was like an electroshock to the chloroformed country of literature and the French thriller." --Jean-Francois Gerault

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