The Scream

by Laurent Graff (Author), Cheryl Robson (Translator), Claire Alejo (Translator)

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  Paperback
  2012

  $12.54

  The narrator, who works in a toll booth on the motorway, describes the world he lives in - a world where most people have died due to a terrible, painful sound that seems to come from nowhere. But not everyone can hear the sound. Is it real or only in the narrator's mind? The Scream starts as sci-fi and ends as a realisation that despair can shape the world to the point where it becomes unrecognisable. Through Laurent Graff's irreproachable style, the reader gets drawn in to the narrator's world embodied by the empty highway; a metaphor which unfolds until the point where reality becomes stranger and indeed crueller than fiction -