Fiction. Translated from the French by Brian Evenson. Her name is Medusa. Her hair is a nest of snakes and, of course, her looks can kill. Her petrified ex-lovers are stacking up in her garden. It can't go on like this. So she leaves, heading for Normandy, looking for a worthy prey. He's dubbed himself ghost-sniper and he knows where to set his sights. He's closed the door on his past, ready to wipe the slate clean. Lying in a bunker, he is on the lookout for his next victim. Reworking myths of Medusa and of the Cyclops, BUNKER ANATOMY is about what happens when two deadly gazes cross. On the Normandy coast, a duel is about to take place, with the reader in the line of fire.

Author City: Paris FRA

Born in Paris in 1962, Christophe Claro is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, among them Livre xix (1997), Chair éléctrique (2003, translated by Brian Evenson into English as Electric Flesh), Madman Bovary (2008), and a collection of essays Le Clavir cannibale (2009). His most recent book CosmoZ combines elements of The Wizard of Oz with the history of destruction from World War I to the detonation of the atom bomb in Hiroshima. He is also, notably, the translator of William T. Vollmann, William H. Gass, Salman Rushdie, Richard Powers and others. He co-edits Le Cherche Midi press's "Lot 49" series and is a member of the Inculte collective.

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