With shades of Abigail’s Party and The Outsider, in Yasmina Reza’s keenly observed and unsettling novel a dinner party held in the suburbs of Paris begins in the most ordinary way but ends in catastrophe.
“…in Reza’s work, characters have always been inclined to go too far, to act out the impulses most of us keep in check. And so a middle-class set-piece takes on the color of a tale by Georges Simenon.” – New York Times
Best known as a playwright, Yasmina Reza has won Lawrence Olivier awards for God of Carnage (2007) and Art (1994). Her latest novel, Serge, published in 2021, follows the three siblings of a dysfunctional French-Jewish family as they make the journey to Auschwitz together. It awaits an English translation, but here is a brief review (in English) of the French edition.
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