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Original title Le Rapport de Brodeck Country France Publication date 2007 Originally published 22 August 2007 Publisher Stock ISBN 9782234057739 | 4/5 Goodreads Translator John Cullen Language French Published in English 2010 Page count 416 Awards Prix Goncourt des Lycéens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brodeck's Report (French: Le Rapport de Brodeck) is a 2007 novel by the French writer Philippe Claudel. The narrative investigates the murder of a mysterious man in an indefinite country just after the war. The book won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The location and the time are never explicit in the novel. However the parallel with World War II is obvious.
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Reception
Helen Brown of The Daily Telegraph called the novel "deeply wise and classically beautiful". Brown wrote: "Brodeck's Report won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in the original French and John Cullen's English translation is as clear as a mountain stream. It is a modern masterpiece."
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