{"product_id":"one-hundred-twenty-one-days-paperback-1","title":"One Hundred Twenty-One Days - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichèle Audin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristiana Hills\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2017 PEN Translation Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e' Picks for Favorite International Reads of 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e...rich, tragic, yet playful novel... -- Nancy Kline, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormally dazzling, playful and affecting, a new Oulipian classic. -- Lauren Elkin, author of \u003ci\u003eFl neuse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe End of Oulipo?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis debut novel by mathematician and Oulipo member Mich le Audin retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations through World Wars I and II. The narrative oscillates stylistically from chapter to chapter--at times a novel, fable, historical research, or a diary--locking and unlocking codes, culminating in a captivating, original reading experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMich le Audin \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several works of mathematical theory and history and also published a work on her anticolonialist father's torture, disappearance, and execution by the French during the Battle of Algiers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichèle Audin is a mathematician and a professor at l'Institut de recherche mathématique avancée (IRMA) in Strasbourg, where she does research notably in the area of symplectic geometry. Audin is a member of the Oulipo, and is the author of many works of mathematics and the history of mathematics, and has also published a work of creative nonfiction on the disappearance of her father, \u003ci\u003eUne vie brève\u003c\/i\u003e (Gallimard, 2013), contributed to a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eGeorges Perec and the Oulipo: Winter Journeys\u003c\/i\u003e (Atlas Press, 2013), and edited and annotated an abecedary of Oulipo works, \u003ci\u003eOULIPO L'Abécédaire provisoirement définitif\u003c\/i\u003e (Larousse, 2014). \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Twenty-One Days\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel and was published to universal acclaim in 2014 by the prestigious Gallimard publishing house in France. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristiana Hills is a literary translator who graduated from NYU's MA program in Literary Translation, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Translation Studies at Binghamton University in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47248940499193,"sku":"9781941920329","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RFYwZWNka0tpSE5pQlhkZUh6NGhKUT09_cf702cfd-7c43-49b5-8762-5743706635b6.webp?v=1768641240","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/one-hundred-twenty-one-days-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}