One Hundred Twenty-One Days

"Audin plays with codes, numbers and dates to create a fascinating and unsettling story." — Le Temps

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.

Michèle Audin 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.

• Author
• Michèle Audin, Christiana Hills

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 200

• Publisher
• Deep Vellum Publishing

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781941920329

• Genres
• fiction, france, literature, novels, mathematics, contemporary

• Release date
• 2016