Schrodinger's Dog

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A striking first novel about the power of a father's love for his son and the heart-wrenching choices we have to make in the face of death. A striking debut novel about the power of a father's love for his son and the heart-wrenching choices he has to make in the face of death. Yanis's world is Pierre, the son he raised as a single parent. For nearly twenty years, Yanis spent his nights as a cabdriver with Pierre always at his side, so as not to miss a moment in each other's company. Yanis and Pierre also share a love of diving-in pursuit of that magical moment when they lose themselves in the deep sea. When enveloped by the natural world, father and son relish an escape from life's pressures. But for some time, Pierre has been tired. Too tired. Despite how attentively Yanis watched him, Yanis missed the early signs of illness. Faced with the harsh reality of his son's numbered days, Yanis struggles to invent a life his son won't have the time to live.

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It is refreshing to encounter another view [of single parenthood], one in which fierce attachments and idiosyncratic love outweigh any grief or hardship. Dumonts debut novel strives to uphold this view. New York Times Book Review

[This] rich, somber debut plumbs a father-son relationship to meditate on the fictions people create to endure lossDumont offers powerful philosophical insight into questions of what people owe one another and the value of subjective belief. Publishers Weekly

Dumont deftly describes a quiet intimacy...A book that, even despite us, opens the heart...Dumont knows how to guide his reader right to the end.ActuaLitt

A first novel of remarkable skill and emotion.Page des libraires

A marvelous, perceptive, and poignant book...Beautifully written.Lecturama

Author Bio

Martin Dumont was born in Paris in 1988 and spent many years in Brittany, where he fell in love with the sea. In addition to writing, he works as a naval architect. Schr dinger's Dog is his first novel. John Cullen was the translator of many books from Spanish, French, German, and Italian, including Siegfried Lenz's The Turncoat, Juli Zeh's Empty Hearts, Patrick Modiano's Villa Triste, Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation, and Philippe Claudel's Brodeck.