One Hundred Twenty-One Days

One Hundred Twenty-One Days

<div><p><B>"...rich, tragic, yet playful novel..." — Nancy Kline, New York Times Book Review</B></p><p><B>One of <I>Publishers Weekly</I>'s Best Books of 2016</B></p><p><B>"Formally dazzling, playful and affecting, a new Oulipian classic." — Lauren Elkin, author of <I>Flâneuse</I> and <I>The End of Oulipo?</I></B><BR></P><p>This debut novel by mathematician and Oulipo member Michèle Audin retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations through World Wars I and II. The narrative oscillates stylistically from chapter to chapter—at times a novel, fable, historical research, or a diary—locking and unlocking codes, culminating in a captivating, original reading experience.</P><p><B>Michèle Audin </B>is the author of several works of mathematical theory and history and also published a work on her anticolonialist father's torture, disappearance, and execution by the French during the Battle of Algiers.<BR></div>