declared 69-year-old Jean-Paul Dubois as he was mobbed after the prize was announced in a Paris restaurant. It won the prestigious Femina prize in 2004 and was published in English three years later. READ ALSO The rentrée littéraire: When France goes book crazyTo keep himself sane, the narrator, Paul Hansen, talks to the dead in his head. "I hope it will help us save and better understand these animals which have so much need of our help now," Tesson said. "I feel like the rabbit who has been pulled out of a hat," he joked, or "a leopard in a world where order has been restored."

Source: The Local November 04, 2019 13:52 UTC