1 JANUARY 2005, page 26

General Fiction From France . . .

Anita Brookner O n 30 August 2004 a woman wrote a letter to Le Figaro registering her dismay at the number of novels scheduled for publication in the three months that......

. . . And A Parisian Bombe Surprise

Lee Langley PIANO by Jean Echenoz, translated by Mark Polizzotti Harvill, £12, pp. 179, ISBN 1843431807 ® £11 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 T his is a French novel, a very......