Review
"... one of the hottest literary talents in France." The Independent "An intellectual prodigy." The Observer "A precocious literary success... paying homage to the author's first literary hero, Milan Kundera." Le Monde
Book Description
Artificial Snow is centred on the narrator’s love for Lou, a woman with whom he had a brief relationship and who has become an obsession. When his dreams of rekindling their lost love, and of living happily ever after, seem impossible, he imagines instead wrecking the worst acts of vengeance against her. This is a novel that ponders the despair of living in a world devoid of love and true companionship.
“Where goes the white, when melts the snow?” asks the epigraph. It turns to sludge, Zeller suggests, and nothing will ever be as simple and good as it used to be. Zeller draws an urbane, witty portrait of the life of twenty-something Parisians, describing their insecurities, their preoccupations and their egotism.
“Where goes the white, when melts the snow?” asks the epigraph. It turns to sludge, Zeller suggests, and nothing will ever be as simple and good as it used to be. Zeller draws an urbane, witty portrait of the life of twenty-something Parisians, describing their insecurities, their preoccupations and their egotism.
About the Author
Florian Zeller (born in 1979) is the prolific author of critically acclaimed novels and plays, the recipient of numerous literary awards, a university lecturer at the prestigious 'Sciences-Po' in Paris, and a journalist for Paris Match, Vogue, Vol de Nuit ... His third novel The Fascination of Evil, for which he participated in the 2008 Edinburgh International Book Festival, is a bestseller in France and received the prestigious Prix Interallie. He was awarded the Prix Jeune Theatre de l'Academie Francaise for his plays. For his first novel Artificial Snow he received the Hachette Foundation Literary Prize, the Writing Talent Award from the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and the New Writer Award from the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation.
Artificial Snow was published in France when the author was only 20 years old. Florian Zeller lives and works in Paris
