Voice Over
by Celine Curiol

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"Not only is it the finest first novel I have read in many years, but it is, quite simply, one of the most original and brilliantly executed works of fiction by any contemporary writer I know of."-Paul Auster

"An infrared view of Sex and the City, a snapshot plunged in an acrid bath."-Globe and Mail

"With an extraordinary sense of the mechanisms of love and the empathy of a saint for the human race, C?line Curiol gives us the most original and the best new book of the year."-Marie Claire

"The troubled, lovestruck young woman... works as an announcer at Paris' famed Gare du Nord train station-'All she knows about the towns . . . are their names'-while seducing us with her elliptical humor, existential musings, and edgy charm."-Elle Magazine

A lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris' Gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of haunting expectation. As something begins to happen between her and the man she loves, she finds herself at a crossroads, pitting her desire against her sanity. This smashing debut novel sparkles with mordant humor and sexy charm.

C?line Curiol is a journalist who has worked for various French media, including Lib?ration, Radio France, and BBC Afrique. Her second novel and a travel book on Sierra Leone have recently been published in France. Originally from Lyon, Curiol lives in New York City, where she is at work on her third novel.

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