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Thibault is a paramedic. Every day he drives to the addresses he
receives from his controller. The city spares him no grief: traffic
jams, elusive parking spaces, delivery trucks blocking his route. He
is well aware that he may be the only human being many of the people
he visits will see for the entire day and is well acquainted with the
symptomatic illnesses, the major disasters, the hustle and bustle and,
of course, the immense, pervading loneliness of the city.
Before one day in May, Mathilde and Thibault had never met. They
were just two anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed and shoved and
pressured continuously by the loveless, urban world.
Underground Time is a novel of quiet violence - the violence of
office-bullying, the violence of the brutality of the city - in which
our two characters move towards an inevitable meeting.
Two solitary existences cross paths in this poignant chronicle, a
new testimony to de Vigan's superb eloquence' Lire
DIV>
Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office
of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department.
Every day, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a
while ago - she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss,
Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no
work to do. < PRAISE FOR 'NO AND ME' 'This novel is a thing of
poetic beauty' The Times 'Bittersweet...delightfully depicted...there is
no doubt all ages will find much to relish in this deceptively simple
tale that is touching and enlightening' The Herald 'One of those special
stories that everyone should read - and then think about, often and
deeply' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times >
Thibault is a paramedic. Every day he drives to the addresses he
receives from his controller. The city spares him no grief: traffic
jams, elusive parking spaces, delivery trucks blocking his route. He
is well aware that he may be the only human being many of the people
he visits will see for the entire day and is well acquainted with the
symptomatic illnesses, the major disasters, the hustle and bustle and,
of course, the immense, pervading loneliness of the city.
Before one day in May, Mathilde and Thibault had never met. They
were just two anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed and shoved and
pressured continuously by the loveless, urban world.
Underground Time is a novel of quiet violence - the violence of
office-bullying, the violence of the brutality of the city - in which
our two characters move towards an inevitable meeting.
Two solitary existences cross paths in this poignant chronicle, a
new testimony to de Vigan's superb eloquence' Lire
DIV>
Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office
of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department.
Every day, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a
while ago - she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss,
Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no
work to do. <
