May 5, 2017
THE SEVENTH FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE – Laurent Binet
Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with François Mitterand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.
But what if it were an assassination?
And what exactly is the Seventh Function of Language?
Author of the multi-award-winning HHHH, Laurent Binet returns with another thrilling novel set in a world of politicians and intellectuals, where eveyone is a suspect and the idea of truth itself is at stake.
The Seventh Function of Language is published this week by Harvill Secker.
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