Présentation de l'éditeur
In an unnamed country, a group of fugitives flee their native village after an attack by the army. Their houses bombed and ransacked, their husbands, children, parents killed, they are seeking sanctuary across the border. In the winter ice a man tries to unearth the remains of his mother and father from a mass grave, determined to take them to a proper burial place. A sadistic military commander, before a group of young officers and the terrified women they have abducted, outlines a terrifying plan of torture, rape and murder in order to prop up his country's crumbling empire. Meanwhile, in an underground gallery, a sniper hides, picking off innocents in a besieged city. His apocalyptic, hallucinatory voice provides Sniper with its main themes, the insanity of war and the terrifying exhilaration it excites in its perpetrators.
Revue de presse
?A terse and unflinchingly honest novel about war and man's inhumanity to men and women. Pavel Hak does not spare us any distressing details: brutal, bestial and highly disturbing? William Boyd ?One hundred pages of rage and fierceness, which are amongst the strongest ever read. A brilliantly cut diamond which leaves you breathless in wonder at the power of fiction... Sniper is a passionate reflection on war: the war that transforms ordinary people into formidable butchers? T?l?rama ?With Sniper, Pavel Hak continues his war against stories that are told to us... He wants: ?No more disinformation, no more falsified news, no more bending of reality?? Les Inrockuptibles
Biographie de l'auteur
Novelist and playwright Pavel Hak was born in Czechoslovakia in 1962. Exiled in France in 1986, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. Afterwards he began writing in French. Sniper, his second novel, is his first book to be published in English. He has also recently written a play 'Lutte a Mort' (2004). In his own words, Pavel Hak "investigates contemporary violence, mechanisms of dominations and the moral and physical torture inflicted on individuals."
