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02584aam a22004218i 4500 001 BCE5CCF2AAD011EE853AF3262BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240104011316 008 230410s2023 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023016478 020 $a 0811231291 020 $a 9780811231299 040 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ2705.N273 $b B3613 2023 082 00 $a 843/.92 $2 23/eng/20230410 100 1 $a Ãnard, Mathias, $d 1972- $e author. 240 10 $a Banquet annuel de la confrérie des fossoyeurs. $l English. 245 14 $a The annual banquet of the gravediggers' guild / $c Mathias Ãnard ; translated by Frank Wynne. 263 $a 2310. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b New Directions Publishing Corporation, $c 2023. 300 $a 419 pages ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a Originally publshed under the title Le banquet annuel de la confrérie des fossoyeurs. 520 $a "To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to understand the essence of the local culture, the intrepid young scholar scurries around restlessly on his moped to interview residents. But what David doesn't yet know is that here, in this seemingly ordinary place, once the stage for wars and revolutions, Death leads a dance: when one thing perishes, the Wheel of Life recycles its soul and hurls it back into the world as microbe, human, or wild animal, sometimes in the past, sometimes in the future. And once a year, Death and the living observe a temporary truce during a gargantuan three-day feast where gravediggers gorge themselves on food, drink, and language ... Brimming with Mathias Ãnard's characteristic wit and encyclopedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild is a riotous novel where the edges between past and present are constantly dissolving against a Rabelaisian backdrop of excess"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a City and town life $z France $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Communities $z France $v Ficción. 650 0 $a Anthropology students $z France $v Fiction. 651 0 $a France $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Occult fiction. $2 gsafd. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a Wynne, Frank, $e translator. 941 $a 4 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020820.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320011107.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240123010210.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240104011830.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BCE5CCF2AAD011EE853AF3262BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search