by Kate Atkinson · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253152347
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«Sous l'aile du bizarre» is the novel by Kate Atkinson, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (407 pages, in French).
Effie tells her mother Nora, on an island off the Scottish coast, about her university life in Dundee and asks about her origins. The novel combines university satire, with eccentric professors and disoriented students, with a recurring mystery: a woman who follows Effie, a private detective and a yellow dog.
Originally published as «Emotionally Weird» in 2000; French translation by Jean Bourdier.
For readers of literary fiction, mystery and humour, and for reading groups; also for fans of Kate Atkinson.
Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots. Her debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award, the precursor to the Costa Book Award, in 1995. The novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Book Award for novel in 2013 and 2015. She is also known for the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series, Case Histories.
