cooper (jane@almaludo.freeserve.co.uk)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:28:27 +0100
-----Original Message----- From: George Rishel <grishel@hotbot.com>
To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
<rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Date: 18 June 1999 14:38 Subject: RARA-AVIS: Daniel
Pennac
>First, Sebastien Japrisot, now Daniel Pennac, pulls
me out of the woodwork.
I know of at least two of Pennac's books that have English
translation because I have both of them in my store. Both are
UK publications. One is The Fairy Gunmother (could that be La
Fee Carabine?), available in paperback, and the other is The
Scapegoat, available in hardback. I haven't had a chance to
read either one, but one customer liked The Fairy Gunmother
so much, he wanted me to find anything else I could by
Pennac--ABE didn't have much then. By the way, I ordered my
first copies of Gunmother from Gardners in England, but this
spring I happened to discover that the UK editions of both
books could be bought from Baker & Taylor, so I suspect
Pennac books are starting to creep into the USA, but it may
take a good detective to track them down.
>
>Both books are set in Paris. Gunmother, as I recall,
deals with how one or
more vigilantes start taking revenge on the muggers who've
been hitting on grandmothers. The Scapegoat takes place in
the Arab quarter of Paris.
>
>Sorry, but Pennac and Japrisot exhaust my current
supply of English
translations of French books. But I'll keep looking.
>
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>Ahh, Daniel Pennac, I'd hesitated to suggest him as I
didn't know whether
he would be included as HB enough, but I'm so glad to see
someone has thrown him into the mix. I've only read Fairy
Gunmother so far, really liked it, witty, dark and rather
bizarre. Both books were reviewed in Crime Time 2.2,
apparently they are the first two of the Belleville Quartet,
which is now about running at about 5 or 6 books, only two in
English, but CT speculated that this was the result of lazy
translation as they are about the Belleville Quarter of
Paris.Anyway on my next foray into the civilized world where
there are real bookshops thats one I'll be looking for.
Bonsoir all JKC
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