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The Anomaly: The mind-bending thriller that has sold 1 million copies
Hervé Le Tellier
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'An adventure, a page turner, a bestseller, but also an experimental, highly literary work' Le Figaro Magazine
What do you do if your life is no longer your own?
When flight Air France 006 enters a terrifying storm, the plane - inexplicably - duplicates. For every passenger on board that day, there are now two - a double with the same mind, body and memories.
Just one thing sets them apart. One plane leaves the storm in ... Read moreMarch. The other doesn't land until June. For world leaders, the emergence of the June flight raises serious alarms. No science, faith, or protocol can explain this unprecedented event.
But for the passengers, a bigger question is at stake. What happens to them, now that their life is shared? What happens to those who land in June, when their March doubles make decisions that will change their lives forever?
And as the doubles prepare to meet, they have an extraordinary decision to make.
If there are two of them, and just one life - who gets to live it?
A runaway bestseller and winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt, The Anomaly is a genre-defying, whip-smart novel that explores the very essence of who we are.
'It's dizzying, exhilarating, brilliant!' Nicholas Carreau, Europe 1
'This novel is an exquisite, insane surprise. Quite simply astounding' Le Journal du Dimanche
'Le Tellier, throughout this flight, deposits on the tarmac his stunned reader, ready to applaud' L'Opinion
'The novel is a tour de force' Toutle La Culture
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Penguin Books Ltd
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London, United Kingdom
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About Hervé Le Tellier
Hervé Le Tellier is a writer, journalist, mathematician, food critic, and teacher. Since 1992, he has been a member of the prestigious and experimental Oulipo group of writers and mathematicians, who work to push against the boundaries of form and structure. At the age of 64, with a decades-long career and several novels, essay and short story collections ... Read moreto his name, The Anomaly is his breakout hit. In 2020, it was awarded the prestigious Prix Goncourt, and has sold over a million copies. Show Less
Reviews for The Anomaly: The mind-bending thriller that has sold 1 million copies
Buckle your seatbelts, as Hervé le Tellier takes you on an extraordinary ride. You won't want to put this book down until the very last page!
Leïla Slimani
author of Lullaby, winner of the 2016 Prix Goncourt
Wow, what an exciting, original blend of theory and heart. It's astonishing. I can't describe it, except to say: read ... Read moreit, and prepare for a whole new perspective on your own existence - and plane travel
Janice Hallett
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Appeal
A mind-bending, prize-winning speculative thriller
Guardian
A good idea, elegantly executed
Daily Telegraph
A funny, smart thriller that surfs the Zeitgeist with typical elan
Adrian McKinty, bestselling author of The Chain A really intriguing novel
John Boyne The Anomaly is one and ten novels at once, brilliantly connecting every mystery of intimacy with the great mystery of humanity
Michel Bussi It's a phenomenal read. I loved how it tied together. So clever yet also so gripping
Harriet Tyce
Sunday Times bestselling author of Blood Orange
This high-concept SF thriller is enormous fun: a French prize winner spiced with Oulipian theory and literary in-jokes, riddling away at existential questions in the guise of a breakneck page-turner'
Guardian, 'Summer Reading: The 50 Hottest New Books'
Amusing, affecting, effervescent
Guardian
It is intricate, ingenious, propulsive - but it is also affecting
Scotsman
An extraordinary mix of existential thriller and speculative fiction. Questions of philosophy, mathematics and astrophysics bend this novel far from the typical mold, and Le Tellier's characters must confront the deepest questions of existence. This thought-provoking literary work deserves a wide readership
Publishers Weekly
A French literary phenomenon...The Anomaly captured a moment when the pandemic stopped the world and existence veered toward the virtual. It swerves between various genres - science fiction, a thriller, love stories, an introspective work - without being confined by any of them
New York Times
Written with such page-turning conviction that readers are guaranteed a thoroughly enjoyable intellectual workout
The Times
The buzz around this Goncourt prize-winner is richly deserved, and just when you think you've worked it out . . . well, you probably haven't
Daily Mail
Intriguing
SFX
A flight of imagination you'll be rolling over in your mind long after deplaning
Washington Post
A striking thought experiment...Le Tellier delivers some sharp social comedy here. But behind the comedy are more profound psychological questions about individual freedom. The Anomaly is priceless
Times Literary Supplement
A witty, erudite novel, teeming and minutely detailed, a treat throughout, with-at its centre-that head-spinning conceit that will leave you deep in thought for a long time after reading the final page. It is rare to have so much fun with something so intelligent
Nicolas Mathieu
author of And Their Children After Them, winner of the 2018 Prix Goncourt
The Anomaly is thought-provoking and philosophical yet thrilling too, with superbly drawn characters, a dynamic plot, and a fascinating question at its heart - what if the entire world as we know it is a lie?
Andrew Hunter Murray A speculative thriller from literary powerhouse Hervé le Tellier. Perfect for those who like their realities unstable
Crime Reads
Mind-bending
The Times
Humorous, captivating, thoughtful - existentialism has never been so thrilling
Kirkus Reviews
Manifest meets Lost in The Anomaly...a puzzle box of a sci-fi thriller
PopSugar
An extraordinary, fast-paced, disturbing novel, perfect for these extraordinary, fast-paced, disturbing times. Think Steven Spielberg meets Umberto Eco with a side order of black humour, generously sprinkled with genuine emotion
Sam Taylor
author of The Island At The End Of The World
A uniquely, gloriously, provocatively French contribution to the sci-fi thriller genre - it will keep you guessing, get your heart pounding, and make you feel and wonder and - above all - think
Sam J. Miller
Nebula-Award winning author of Blackfish City
In The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier has delivered a volatile and compelling thriller that has you hurtling toward the mystery at the heart of the novel from page one. The Anomaly is a gripping and moving blend of Blake Crouch's Dark Matter, the television show Lost, with a bit of The Philadelphia Experiment thrown in for good measure. I couldn't put it down.
Terry Miles
author of Rabbits
Exhilarating, thought-provoking, funny, and devastating. The Anomaly is unlike anything else I've read this year
Laure Van Rensburg
author of Nobody But Us
I was completely blown away by this genre-defying masterpiece. Part thriller, part philosophical rumination on what makes us human, and with a dash of theoretical physics; this is an absolute must-read
Sarah Bonner
author of Her Perfect Twin
The Anomaly is a brilliant balancing act of a novel, a fantastic rush and ride that works on myriad levels, at various depths, and in a multitude of styles. It's a precise and erudite literary treat, a comedic sociopolitical-religious skewering of these contemporary times, a philosophical-scientific-mathematical dive into the puzzles of possibility, space, and time, and an ingenious thought experiment that lends itself easily to ad infinitum analysis and dissection. It's also entirely grounded in human nature. Le Tellier's pointillistic characters are, like all of us, buffeted by desires, seeking love, striving, aging, making good and bad decisions, choosing the right or wrong paths, believing they know and understand themselves, utterly trusting in free will. Highly intelligent, ironic without cheap cynicism, The Anomaly is an immensely fun novel, an immersive experience that leaves the reader analysing everything anew
Cherise Wolas
author of The Resurrection of Joan Ashby and The Family Tabor
The year has only just begun but I will be surprised if I read something as astonishing as The Anomaly in the next 12 months
Scotsman
It's dizzying, exhilarating, brilliant!
Nicholas Carreau
Europe 1
An intoxicating mix of the magical and life's big questions
Financial Times
Hervé le Tellier's new novel is an exquisite, insane surprise. Quite simply astounding
Le Journal du Dimanche
An addictive page-turner, The Anomaly flirts with thriller and science fiction, and mirrors the best televisions series in its very effective orchestration of suspense. Filled with fascination existential and metaphysical questions, this is an effective, funny and discreetly melancholy novel
Le Monde
A brilliant, extremely inventive book. Like an astounding screenplay for an American blockbuster, written by a Frenchman who is having fun with it
Olivia de Lamberterie
France 2
Hervé le Tellier has written an impossible novel. It's a thriller but also a fantasy. A choral novel, which is also surrealist. An adventure, a page turner, a bestseller, but also an experimental, highly literary work
Frederic Beigbeder
Le Figaro Magazine
A delight. Intricate, ingenious, propulsive - but also affecting, with numerous moments that are terribly poignant along with its puzzles and winks
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How would society respond to the inexplicable? This is the question the author tries, with intelligence, elegance and humour, to answer. Hervé le Tellier has written a frank and gripping novel with complex, moving characters. You won't be able to put it down!
Claire Bitaudeau
Librairie Millepages
Effervescent playfulness . . . Hilariously deadpan
Guardian
The novel is a tour de force which both dives into the personal lives of several characters and at the same time gives a group perspective on an international event which verges on science fiction. The taut rhythm of the investigation keeps the reader on tenterhooks
Toute La Culture
The situations are mad, but the questions they raise, far less so. Such is the profundity of this astonishing book: it makes light of itself, lending an air of fantasy to the fates of its characters, while Hervé le Tellier holds a mirror up before us
Le Figaro
A master of one-touch characterisation. Le Tellier's genius is in making the unimaginable feel authentic
Metro
Le Tellier, throughout this flight, deposits on the tarmac his stunned reader, ready to applaud
L'Opinion
Le Tellier is a masterful writer and his staggering story verges on thriller and science fiction
Version Femina
Somewhere between fable and science fiction, it's a fascinating novel
La Depeche du Midi
The novel weaves a surprising story out of several narrative threads which give Hervé le Tellier the opportunity to touch on as many literary genres as he does themes, in a biting and often funny critique of the start of the 21st century
En Attendant Nadeau
Excellent...at once zeitgeisty, intelligent, and entertaining
Charlie Hebdo
Fantastic...The Anomaly wears its name well: it's rare in France that a work combines the best of American TV series with an impeccable mastery of the French psychological novel
Elle France
Dizzying, compelling
RTE Guide
Mind-bending. Herve Le Tellier's emotional and intellectual rollercoaster is well worth the ride
The Times Literary Supplement
A delightfully confounding thriller . . . Le Tellier's prose is beautifully efficient and capable of quiet devastation
London Review of Books
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