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Tamam Shud ; an artist's novel

Couverture du livre « Tamam Shud ; an artist's novel » de Alex Cecchetti aux éditions Sternberg Press
Résumé:

Un roman policier « d'artiste », dans lequel Alex Cecchetti mène une enquête d'outre-tombe pour découvrir les raisons de son décès.

« I am dead. Homicide, assassination, accident, suicide, the detectives have come up with nothing. The labels in my clothes, my fingerprints, my shoe size,... Voir plus

Un roman policier « d'artiste », dans lequel Alex Cecchetti mène une enquête d'outre-tombe pour découvrir les raisons de son décès.

« I am dead. Homicide, assassination, accident, suicide, the detectives have come up with nothing. The labels in my clothes, my fingerprints, my shoe size, everything has been unstitched, erased, wiped away, blanched, bleached, and consigned to oblivion. As the only clue, in a secret pocket sewn into my trousers, the detectives found a flimsy slip of paper torn from the pages of a book. On that folded bit of paper just two words, Tamam Shud, «this is the end.» Experts, antiquarians, and opium smokers have been consulted, and all agree that these are the last two words in the Rubaiyat, an ancient collection of esoteric poems written by a Persian poet named Omar Khayyam. What the hell do I have to do with poetry, Persia, and hidden pockets? I can't even sew on a button. My identity is still unknown and not even I remember much. This is why I have decided to investigate my own death. »

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