New Book in French....similar to McCann saga?

almostgothic wrote:Adam Tudor from CR (cunningly disguised as Officer Crabtree) is hurriedly dispatched by plane to France to harangue the latest offending author.

"It's another bewk" he sighs.
"I was in the lavatory when I got the command. There is obviously no p*ss for the wicked."

margaret wrote:

almostgothic wrote:

Are the parents called Kaput and Gerbil Macand, perchance?

You owe me a keyboard AG, this one's got beer spat all over it.

NoStone wrote:
- what's French for 'Carry On Doctors?

frencheuropean wrote:The critics are good, the young writter talentuous and Gallimard is the best known edition. A success most probably with the Mccann story seen with the same eyes than us, "nuttters" on the net. Here is the French summary. Could Anna translate please. Very interesting:


"Enfant étrange, taciturne et solitaire, Madec vit à Granville, avec ses parents et ses deux frères. Alors que la famille est en vacances en Toscane avec un couple d’amis, Madec manque de se noyer dans la piscine. Il est sauvé par un Anglais, Ron Murdoch, un repris de justice qui a purgé une longue peine en Angleterre pour pédophilie. Un soir, tandis que ses parents dînent au restaurant avec leurs amis, Madec se tue accidentellement dans la cuisine du bungalow. Revenant à l’improviste au milieu du repas, Laurence trouve son fils mort sur le carrelage. Sans réfléchir, elle emporte le corps et le fait disparaître, avant de rejoindre les autres au restaurant comme si de rien n’était. De retour au bungalow, la disparition déclenche une alerte générale. Battues, recherches, enquête policière, paparazzi : en quelques jours, les parents deviennent des vedettes. L’oncle de l’enfant orchestre une campagne de presse qui émeut le monde entier - jusqu’au pape Jean- Paul II. Diligentée par un inspecteur italien, l’enquête est suivie en haut lieu par la France. L’Anglais Murdoch est vite accusé d’avoir enlevé et tué Madec. Son passé plaide contre lui… S’inspirant d’un fait divers récent, Arthur Dreyfus décrit avec une ironie souvent cruelle cette famille figée dans son silence et ses lâchetés, et avec une poésie prenante la solitude de Madec. Progressivement s’installe un climat proche de la folie, dans lequel la mère, énigmatique et silencieuse, joue un rôle central. On comprendra peu à peu pourquoi elle cache la mort de son enfant…"

T4two wrote:Without thinking, she takes the body and makes it disappear, before joining the others in the restaurant as if nothing had happened.

How does one make a body disappear and without the body, how can one prove that it was an accident?

T4two wrote:Without thinking, she takes the body and makes it disappear, before joining the others in the restaurant as if nothing had happened.

How does one make a body disappear and without the body, how can one prove that it was an accident?

AnnaEsse wrote:

T4two wrote:Without thinking, she takes the body and makes it disappear, before joining the others in the restaurant as if nothing had happened.

How does one make a body disappear and without the body, how can one prove that it was an accident?

I'd say 'got rid of,' the body.

Badboy wrote:

T4two wrote:Without thinking, she takes the body and makes it disappear, before joining the others in the restaurant as if nothing had happened.

How does one make a body disappear and without the body, how can one prove that it was an accident?

T4TWO,GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK

NoStone wrote:

almostgothic wrote:Adam Tudor from CR (cunningly disguised as Officer Crabtree) is hurriedly dispatched by plane to France to harangue the latest offending author.

"It's another bewk" he sighs.
"I was in the lavatory when I got the command. There is obviously no p*ss for the wicked."

Ha Ha!

Fiona Payne = Mimi Labonq

Clarry = Leiutenant Gruber

Tanner =Michelle ( I shall say this this only once)

Loopdaloop wrote:

NoStone wrote:

almostgothic wrote:Adam Tudor from CR (cunningly disguised as Officer Crabtree) is hurriedly dispatched by plane to France to harangue the latest offending author.

"It's another bewk" he sighs.
"I was in the lavatory when I got the command. There is obviously no p*ss for the wicked."

Ha Ha!

Fiona Payne = Mimi Labonq

Clarry = Leiutenant Gruber

Tanner =Michelle ( I shall say this this only once)

Clarry is more likely to be

"It is I... LeClar"
and as they gather around, as 'kate ' shall say it only once' (and wont answer any further questions) they then discuss the hiding of 'La Fallen Madarcy, With the big colombola"
It is then Goncarlo and the rest of the police which would be portrayed as ze german swine!

T4two wrote:

AnnaEsse wrote:

T4two wrote:Without thinking, she takes the body and makes it disappear, before joining the others in the restaurant as if nothing had happened.

How does one make a body disappear and without the body, how can one prove that it was an accident?

I'd say 'got rid of,' the body.

Agree - lost in translation? But the question still remains - how does one get rid of a body 'without thinking', which suggests a spontaneous act, especially in a place where one has only been for a few days and which would therefore be unfamiliar? How the body was concealed and ultimately disposed of is surely a key question which has to be addressed by the investigating authorities. Why this tendency to assume an accident in fact?

AnnaEsse wrote:

T4two wrote:

AnnaEsse wrote:

T4two wrote:Without thinking, she takes the body and makes it disappear, before joining the others in the restaurant as if nothing had happened.

How does one make a body disappear and without the body, how can one prove that it was an accident?

I'd say 'got rid of,' the body.

Agree - lost in translation? But the question still remains - how does one get rid of a body 'without thinking', which suggests a spontaneous act, especially in a place where one has only been for a few days and which would therefore be unfamiliar? How the body was concealed and ultimately disposed of is surely a key question which has to be addressed by the investigating authorities. Why this tendency to assume an accident in fact?

I think we'll have to translate as something like, 'without giving it a second thought, she removed the body and got rid of it.'

T4two wrote:

AnnaEsse wrote:

T4two wrote:

AnnaEsse wrote:

T4two wrote:Without thinking, she takes the body and makes it disappear, before joining the others in the restaurant as if nothing had happened.

How does one make a body disappear and without the body, how can one prove that it was an accident?

I'd say 'got rid of,' the body.

Agree - lost in translation? But the question still remains - how does one get rid of a body 'without thinking', which suggests a spontaneous act, especially in a place where one has only been for a few days and which would therefore be unfamiliar? How the body was concealed and ultimately disposed of is surely a key question which has to be addressed by the investigating authorities. Why this tendency to assume an accident in fact?

I think we'll have to translate as something like, 'without giving it a second thought, she removed the body and got rid of it.'

Hmmm... that would have to be one very callous self-centred person.

the slave wrote:Well as far as I know we are still allowed to have an imagination. Too bad for the doctors. There's nowt they can do about this. Isn't it marvellous!?? I'm ecstatic.

dazedandconfused wrote:Sadly my French is poor to non existent, so I do hope that we get the chance to read a version in English at some point. I'm excited that it's been printed and sold and sad that I can't read it - yet.

AnnaEsse wrote:

dazedandconfused wrote:Sadly my French is poor to non existent, so I do hope that we get the chance to read a version in English at some point. I'm excited that it's been printed and sold and sad that I can't read it - yet.

It could become my next project!

dazedandconfused wrote:

AnnaEsse wrote:

dazedandconfused wrote:Sadly my French is poor to non existent, so I do hope that we get the chance to read a version in English at some point. I'm excited that it's been printed and sold and sad that I can't read it - yet.

It could become my next project!

Fingers crossed