Underground Time

On a single day in May, the novel follows two strangers through the crowds of Paris and its suburbs. Mathilde, a marketing manager raising three sons alone, once contradicted her boss; since then he has frozen her out, stripping her of work until she sits in a windowless office with no computer, while coworkers keep away to protect their careers and she blames herself for not reacting sooner. Thibault, a doctor who drives from one house call to the next, spends his days stuck in traffic and facing other people's illness and poverty, and has just broken off with Lila, a woman who never loved him back. Packed trains, traffic jams and an indifferent city press on both lonely lives as the hours pass and their paths draw near.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

299 pages in the original

First published

2009 by JC Lattès

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9782709630405 (original)

9781408811115 (Bloomsbury, United Kingdom)

9781608197125 (Bloomsbury, United States)

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