Jean-Baptiste Del Amo returns with a novel of teenage restlessness
Diacritik reviews "La Nuit ravagée", the French author's new novel set around an abandoned house amid a housing estate.
The literary site Diacritik has published a review of "La Nuit ravagée", a new novel by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo. According to the outlet, the book centers on an abandoned house standing amid a landscape of housing developments, and on a group of teenagers whose restlessness and impulses collide with what they find there.
Diacritik's summary gives little beyond this setup: a derelict dwelling at the heart of suburban lotissements, and adolescents confronted with themselves through it. No further plot details, publisher, or release date are given in the material available.
Del Amo has built a body of work known in French letters for its attention to bodies, violence and the natural or built environments that shape them. "La Nuit ravagée" appears to continue in that vein, judging from the review's framing, though the full scope of the novel is not detailed in the source.
No further information — on the book's length, its publishing house, or its place in this year's rentrée littéraire — is available in the material at hand.
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