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Originally published in France, where it became a best-seller, an unconventional, satiric novel about gender, politics, and social hypocrisy tells the story of a young woman who slowly metamorphoses into a pig. A first novel.

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Franz Kafka meets George Orwell in this dark, dystopian tale. Set in Paris in the near future, the story revolves around a young woman who works as a beautician and masseuse, and for whom happiness is derived from perfumes, shampoos and generally hedonistic pursuits. One day she realizes she is slowly (and quite literally) becoming a pig. Life as a neophyte porker, she discovers, isn't all that bad, though it does contain some unique dangers. She remains extremely popular with her massage customers, who take unusual glee in adopting her barnyard ways. Unfortunately, it is difficult for a pig to find true love in a human world; abandoned by her lover, her days blur into an endless stream of swine-like debauchery. Then she meets Yvan, a young corporate type who sometimes becomes a wolf. Pig Tales, a Prix Goncourt finalist and overnight sensation in France, is Marie Darrieussecq's first book.
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Marie Darrieussecqis a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and teaches in Lille.

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  • PublisherNew Pr
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 1565843614
  • ISBN 13 9781565843615
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages151
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