The Cemetery of Swallows: A Mallock Mistery
By (Author) Mallock
Translated by Steven Rendall
Europa Editions
World Noir
1st June 2014
United States
General
Fiction
843.92
Paperback
272
Width 135mm, Height 210mm
One day, Manuel Gemoni travels to the other end of the world to kill an old man in the Dominican Republic. When questioned by police, Manuel can only explain his bizarre actions by saying, 'I killed him because he had killed me.' Unable to comprehend why an ordinary family man with no history of violent behaviour would go to such lengths to kill a man he didn't even know, Police Commissioner Made Mallock decides to investigate. The Cemetery of Swallows is a dark, literary thriller by an enigmatic and best-selling new voice.
Jean-Denis Bruet-Ferreol, who writes under the pseudonym Mallock, was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1951. He is not only an author, but also a painter, photographer, designer, inventor, artistic director, and composer. Since 2000, he has dedicated himself to digital painting and crime novels. Steven Rendall has translated ninety-six books from French and German, four of which have won major translation prizes. His translations for Europa Editions include Disturbance by Philippe Lanon (2019) and The Tyranny of Algorithms by Miguel Benasayag (2021). He is professor emeritus of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. He lives in France.