![]() She has been a successful playwright in her native France since the late 1980s it was her 1994 play, “Art,” that brought her fame in the English-speaking world. Reza is the bard of bourgeois, neoliberal angst. She has what appears to be a casual friendship with Jean-Lino she doesn’t much like his wife, Lydie. “I’m happy with my husband,” she says, but then undercuts that claim: “He loves me even when I look bad, which is not at all reassuring.” At 62, she worries about getting older she buys anti-aging products recommended by Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett, though she disapproves of herself for doing so. She is married to Pierre, a math professor. ![]() She works as a patent engineer at the Pasteur Institute in the city what she actually does all day, however, remains a mystery. ![]() On the surface, Elisabeth leads a placid, unexceptional life. Who can determine the starting point of events?” The nature of the disaster unfolds across a brisk 200 pages, but it is foreshadowed from the very beginning, when Elisabeth observes her neighbor, Jean-Lino, rigid in an uncomfortable chair, surrounded by the detritus of the festivities, “all the leavings of the party arranged in an optimistic moment. In Yasmina Reza’s unsettling new novel, Elisabeth, the narrator, looks back on an evening in a Paris suburb that began in the most ordinary way - a casual evening party for family, friends and neighbors - and ended in catastrophe.
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