by Yasmina Reza · De Bezige Bij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789023456087
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«Babylon» is the novel by Yasmina Reza, published by De Bezige Bij in paperback (188 pages, in Dutch).
Elisabeth Jauze, 62, throws a party at her home and invites her neighbours Jean-Lino and his eccentric wife Lydie. The evening seems a success, but in the early hours Jean-Lino confesses to strangling his wife. With irony and a sharp eye, Yasmina Reza portrays the moral emptiness of modern society and the fragility beneath abundance.
Winner of the Prix Renaudot 2016. Dutch translation by Floor Borsboom and Eef Gratama; the French original is titled 'Babylone'.
For readers of European literary fiction who appreciate black humour and social critique.
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.
