On a day when Zelda, a hard-knock cop from the precinct of the 11th arrondissement, Paris, is inquiring into the murder of a Uyghur immigrant, she runs into a handsome young man accompanied (or followed) by a heron on the fringes of a prostitute protest in Belleville. They put on her onto the trail of Clotilde, a young secret agent with multicoloured pigtails who soon finds herself thrown into a fight against international corruption…
With Épopée, Marie Cosnay continues to explore what poetry can do to crime fiction, recounting the violent and sensual adventures of the bodies of those spies, who, in the end, lose themselves no less than we do in the turning world.
Her unique poetry matched by her elliptical artistry, Marie Cosnay manages to tell us something profound about the contemporary world, the difficulty of preserving our purity and the fundamental impossibility of documenting it.
