One Hundred Twenty-One Days

By Michèle Audin

Deep Vellum, 2016

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 chapterat times a novel, fable, historical research, or a diarylocking and unlocking codes, culminating in a captivating, original reading experience. (Buy)

Longlisted for the 2017 PEN Translation Prize

One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2016

One of Words Without Borders' Picks for "Favorite International Reads of 2016"

"...rich, tragic, yet playful novel..." - Nancy Kline, New York Times Book Review

"Formally dazzling, playful and affecting, a new Oulipian classic." - Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse and The End of Oulipo?

Read my interview with Open Letters Monthly about the book here.

A chapter of this book appears in the Penguin Book of Oulipo, the most extensive anthology of Oulipo writing in English.

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