Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Books on prize lists

• Nue

  In English

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  Goncourt 2013 · Shortlist

  Naked

  Nue

  Jean-Philippe Toussaint · 56 when first published

  Novel · 124 pages · Love · Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte, book 4

  AIAI-generated summary:Marie, a haute couture designer and the narrator’s partner, closes her autumn-winter show with a model dressed only in honey, followed down the runway by a swarm of bees.

• La Vérité sur Marie

  In English

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  Goncourt 2009 · Shortlist

  The Truth about Marie

  La Vérité sur Marie

  Jean-Philippe Toussaint · 52 when first published

  Novel · 160 pages · Love · Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte, book 3

  AIAI-generated summary:A couple has been apart for some months. Although both have new lives, each keeps the memories of the past and imagines the other in their own daily life and new encounters.

• Fuir

  In English

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  Goncourt 2005 · Shortlist

  Running Away

  Fuir

  Jean-Philippe Toussaint · 48 when first published

  Novel · 156 pages · Love · Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte, book 2

  AIAI-generated summary:Given a mobile phone on the day he arrives in China, the narrator wonders whether he is being watched; on a night train between Shanghai and Beijing, his fear of the telephone takes on its full meaning.