Glasshouse

Fiction. Longlisted for The Guardian's 2019 Not the Booker Prize. Set in and around Jardin des Plantes, Paris, Europe, the World, the Universe, Armand's short novel is a whodunit with multiple twists. The setting of the tale against a backdrop of fossils and marvels of taxidermy gives Armand's story a macroscopic dimension. As if the evolution of an entire species could be compressed into several hours of a Sunday morning. As if a tale of a murdered schoolteacher and a vengeful mob could tell of speciation and extinction throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth. And it can. Armand's deftly written fragmentary narrative is a point-counter-point of silent unheard voices, whose apocalyptic finale eschews euphony in favour of a cacophonous refusal of resolution. "NO END"?loose ends being preferable to final solutions...

• | Author: Louis Armand
• | Publisher: Equus Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 128 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0993195571
• | ISBN-13: 9780993195570