by Yasmina Reza · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596702824
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«Babylon» is the novel by Yasmina Reza, published by FISCHER Taschenbuch in paperback (219 pages, in German).
Elisabeth, a middle-class woman, strikes up a friendship with some neighbours and organises a dinner that ends in tragedy. The evening drags her into an extreme situation, between farce and police thriller, which she must face without help. Reza portrays friendship, coupledom and the cracks in everyday life with irony.
Originally published as 'Babylone' in 2016, this 2019 German edition was translated by Frank Heibert and Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. It won the Prix Renaudot and was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking a tragicomic register and a mounting tension from an everyday situation.
Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays 'Art' and God of Carnage. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 black comedy film Carnage, directed by Roman Polanski, was based on Reza's Tony Award-winning 2006 play God of Carnage.
