by Thierry Jonquet, Jacques Testart, Jacques Tardi · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020364300
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«L'enfant de l'absente» is an illustrated story by Thierry Jonquet, Jacques Testart and Jacques Tardi, published by Seuil in French paperback.
A young African woman dies after being hit by a bus and, when she arrives at the hospital, the doctors discover that she is pregnant and that the fetus remains intact; Professor Lapouge dreams of bringing the pregnancy to term. A disturbing reflection on the power and excesses of medicine.
The work was originally published in 1994; the 1999 edition includes a preface by Thierry Jonquet, an afterword by Jacques Testart and illustrations by Jacques Tardi.
For readers of contemporary French literature and crime fiction with a medical and social background, as well as fans of Jacques Tardi.
Thierry Jonquet was a French writer who specialised in crime novels with political themes. He was born in Paris; his most recent and best known novel outside France was Mygale (1984), then published in the US in 2003 by City Lights. Mygale was also published in the UK as Tarantula in 2005. He wrote over 20 novels in French, including Le bal des débris, Moloch and Rouge c'est la vie.
