Class Trip
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Ten year old Nicholas is dreading the school trip. His father refuses to let him travel on the coach because of a recent road accident in which several children were killed. He arrives a day late and without his bag. Nicholas is beset with worries: will his father return with his bag? Will he wet the bed? Will his school mates tease him? Nicholas’ fears and fantasies become frighteningly real when a local child vanishes and staff and pupils are interviewed by the police. Along with a school companion, Nicholas tries to solve the disappearance, only to confront a reality more sinister and atrocious than any of his imaginings. French author Emmanuel Carrère has written several previous books and won the Prix Femina for Class Trip.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Linda
Coverdale
Linda Coverdale is a literary translator from French. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Ph.D in French Literature. She has translated into English more than 60 works by such authors as Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, Annie Ernaux, Sébastien Japrisot, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Philippe Labro, Yann Queffélec, Jorge Semprún, Lyonel Trouillot, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jean Hartzfeld, Sylvain Tesson and Marguerite Duras.
Linda Coverdale is a literary translator from French. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Ph.D in French Literature. She has translated into English more than 60 works by such authors as Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, Annie Ernaux, Sébastien Japrisot, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Philippe Labro, Yann Queffélec, Jorge Semprún, Lyonel Trouillot, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jean Hartzfeld, Sylvain Tesson and Marguerite Duras.