It feels like a crazy Netflix series. In March 2021, an inexplicable and insane phenomenon happens to a plane in a flight from Paris to New York, a phenomenon on the borders of reality and the fourth dimension. L’Anomalie is written as a polyphonic novel in which the voices of several characters are heard as they lose and find themselves in the meanders of their own thoughts and experiences. We listen to each of them while they are struggling in a dizzying confrontation with who they are and with their doubles. Everything seems so inexplicable, and the reader caught in a distortion of space-time. But, we let ourselves be carried away by all these stories and dissonant but perfectly mastered narrative arches that all eventually converge towards the same horizon.

In this facetious and inventive novel –which received the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2020– Hervé Le Tellier (born in 1957) builds a rich, complex and delightful text where serious questions about science or religion are mixed with a caustic and jubilant humor. Once the book is read, we feel a little bit dizzy, as this polymorphous work plays with several genres of literature with brio: anticipation novel, detective story and spy novel. A reading that will not leave anyone indifferent.