by Tanguy Viel · Les Editions de Minuit · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707343079
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«Article 353 du code pénal» is the novel by Tanguy Viel, published by Les Éditions de Minuit in paperback (176 pages, in French).
Martial Kermeur is arrested for throwing property developer Antoine Lazenec into the sea. Before the judge, he reconstructs his story: the divorce, custody of his son Erwan, the dismissal, and Lazenec's seductive promises, which lead him to invest his entire severance package in a flat with a sea view that has not yet been built.
The cover bears the mention «Grand Prix RTL-Lire 2017», an award that appears in this edition.
Recommended for readers of contemporary French fiction and psychological suspense with a social backdrop.
Tanguy Viel is a French writer. A resident at the Villa Médicis in 2003–2004, Tanguy Viel was awarded the Prix Fénéon and the Prix littéraire de la vocation for his novel L'absolue perfection du crime. He also won the Grand prix RTL-Lire for Article 353 du Code pénal in 2017. Other Press in New York published the translation by William Rodarmor in March, 2019. La fille qu'on appelle was one of nine novels in the second selection for the 2021 Prix Goncourt.
