"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.

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• Literature & FictionHistorical FictionFrench

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