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title: "Underground Time: A Novel"
brand: "delphine de vigan"
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# Underground Time: A Novel

**Brand:** delphine de vigan
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			        		&#x201C;De Vigan keeps you going with lovely language... The book isn&apos;t just about these two strangers and what they have in common, it is about what all of us have in common, strangers or not.&#x201D; &#x2015;Courtnay Glatter, Bust&#x201C;De Vigan&apos;s lucid take on the fragility of our purchase on happiness and the frenzied madness of our cities clearly comes through in this bracingly acerbic novel.&#x201D; &#x2015;Kathryn Lang, Minneapolis Star Tribune&#x201C;[An] elegantly constructed, sympathetic, compelling, enjoyable novel.&#x201D; &#x2015;Nicola Barr, Guardian&#x201C;De Vigan has beautifully captured the behind-the-scenes agendas of personal and professional lives... an engrossing, well-paced story that takes us into a world most of us know but rarely discuss.&#x201D; &#x2015;Carol Gladstein, Booklist&#x201C;Delphine de Vigan&apos;s novel Underground Time reveals the psychological working conditions endured by 21st century corporate middle management employees and the loneliness, isolation, and anonymity of contemporary urban life in much the same way that Upton Sinclair&apos;s The Jungle exposed the hazardous working conditions of slaughterhouse workers and Theodore Dreiser&apos;s Sister Carrie portrayed sexual exploitation in urban life a century ago.&#x201D; &#x2015;David Cooper, New York Journal of Books
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Delphine de Vigan is the author of No and Me, which was a bestseller in France and was awarded the Prix des Libraires (The Booksellers&apos; Prize) in 2008. Her other novels include Jolis Gar&#xE7;ons and Soir de d&#xE9;cembre. Underground Time was shortlisted for the 2009 Goncourt.George Miller is the translator of No and Me. He is also a regular translator for Le Monde diplomatique&apos;s English-language edition, and the translator of Conversations with my Gardener by Henri Cueco and Inside Al-Qaeda by Mohammed Sifaoui.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent writing doesn't make this book less tedious but it does harness you to it to the end.
  

*by N***N on July 5, 2014*









  
  
    If a reader wants to be uplifted or inspired, Underground Time  is not a book to take on…unless perhaps you are  an aspiring writer. Certainly this author is an exceptional talent, capable of teaching the merits of mood and complexity.  For example, with a small scene in the beginning, involving a fortune teller, she plants a seed of hope for the reader and the characters. The amazing part is that seed grows up to and including the end, in spite of all evidence to the contrary.As the story unfolds, two primary characters are struggling with unrelated emotional circumstances.  Both  continue to be plowed under by their misery  ( chapter after chapter, after chapter, after chapter).  The woman is being mentally and professionally beaten down by an arrogant boss.  In fact, he is devious and evil at heart.  The male primary is a doctor practicing under a social  health system that pays little but demands much. His not-so-romantic partner likewise invests little in him. As good and decent,hardworking people, I liked these two characters.  But they are depressingly slow to act in their own behalf.
  


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    Lives of quiet desperation
  

*by K***E on May 25, 2014*









  
  
    This book has echoes of Camus' The Stranger in the isolation of its two main characters, Mathilde and Thibeault; there is also a Kafkaesque quality to Mathilde's predicament.  The rigors of life in a modern cosmopolitan city--from one's strategy for riding the subway and driving through the streets, to the frustrations of computer malfunctions, both random and intentional--are very well captured in this novel.  The Metro serves as an overarching metaphor for the dehumanization and isolation that its characters deal with every day.  While I was not surprised by the ending, it did seem as though the story, with its sense of rising tension and building toward a climax, perhaps should have ended differently (though I'm not sure how); some readers will likely feel short-changed.  On the whole, it was a powerful novel which will haunt me for some time.
  


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    Poetic and introspective
  

*by L***N on January 23, 2017*









  
  
    Haunting imagery, fascinating story. The conclusion was unexpected, a shift away from the typical happy endings, which I found refreshing. A sad and unflinching commentary on modern society.
  


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