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Home > Translation > The World Bookshelf > Books > Constellation

Constellation

On 27 October 1949, a Lockheed Constellation passenger plane left Paris for New York. Hours later, it disappeared on approach to its scheduled stopover in the Azores. It was found on a mountainside five miles from its intended landing zone. There were no survivors.

Adrien Bosc’s magnetic debut novel is a memorial to an air disaster that happened half a century ago. But it is also a love song to the forgotten lives that every tragedy scatters around it like so much debris, and a poignant investigation into the nature of collective tragedy.

Author

Adrien Bosc

Adrien Bosc

Books

The Madman of Freedom Square

The Iraqi Christ

Constellation

Adrien Bosc was born in Avignon in 1986. He is the founder of Éditions du sous-sol and the magazines Desports and Feuilleton. Constellation is his first novel. It is an international bestseller, and won the 2014 Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie Française.

Translator

Willard Wood

Willard Wood

Books

Constellation

Willard Wood is the winner of the 2002 Lewis Galantière Award for Literary Translation and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. He lives in Connecticut.

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Serpent's Tail, 2016
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On 27 October 1949, a Lockheed Constellation passenger plane left Paris for New York. Hours later, it disappeared on approach to its scheduled stopover in the Azores. It was found on a mountainside five miles from its intended landing zone. There were no survivors.

Adrien Bosc’s magnetic debut novel is a memorial to an air disaster that happened half a century ago. But it is also a love song to the forgotten lives that every tragedy scatters around it like so much debris, and a poignant investigation into the nature of collective tragedy.

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