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A review by ellethinks
Hunting Party by Agnès Desarthe
4.0
A strange novella about a young man who goes on a hunting trip for the first time with some other men from the village he lives in. This narrative bounces between the hunting trip, his life growing up, and other individuals in the village as a storm wreaks havoc.
There is a plot, but that is not the main driver of the book. It's a meditation on humanity and how a life can be lived or wasted. One mode of conveying this is through a conversation occurring between the protagonist and a rabbit he accidentally shot. I especially enjoyed these aspects of the narrative and had wished there had been more of it.
The translation was done beautifully and I will be keeping an eye out for any other works Christiana Hills translates in the future.
There is a plot, but that is not the main driver of the book. It's a meditation on humanity and how a life can be lived or wasted. One mode of conveying this is through a conversation occurring between the protagonist and a rabbit he accidentally shot. I especially enjoyed these aspects of the narrative and had wished there had been more of it.
The translation was done beautifully and I will be keeping an eye out for any other works Christiana Hills translates in the future.