"Audin plays with codes, numbers and dates to create a fascinating and unsettling story."--_Le Temps_ This debut novel by mathematician and Oulipo member Michele Audin retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations through World Wars I and II. The narrative oscillates stylisti
One Hundred Days
β Scribed by Sandy Woodward
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2012;2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 381 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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