Monsieur Japanese Literature Series perhaps a suitable environment or

perhaps a suitable environment or soil might be prepared into which an appropriate seed for change might fall

meets and tricks a boatful of unusual characters

and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she

set in the mountains of Morocco when the French still controlled North Africa

Translated by Andrew Oakland

Monsieur Japanese Literature Series perhaps a suitable environment orBy Jean Philippe Toussaint Translated by John Lambert ISBN: 9781564785053 Publication Date: 6 1 2008 The hero of this cool novel is 'Monsieur', a nameless young man whose everyday life is followed in precise detail during the course of the narrative. Almost incidentally we discover that Monsieur has an executive job and a secretary; that he is rejected by his fiance but is championed by her parents; that he unwillingly types out his neighbour's