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1990: A woman from a man’s past suddenly reappears
The Mystery Guest
What you need to know before your trail
When the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Grégoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that the caller was the woman who had left him, without warning, five years before. And he couldn’t have guessed why she was calling: not to say she was sorry, not to explain why she’d vanished from his life, but to invite him to a party. A birthday party. For a woman he’d never met. Here is the unlikely but true account of how one man got over a broken heart, regained his faith in literature, participated–by mistake–in a work of performance art, threw away his turtlenecks, spent his rent money on a 1964 bordeaux that nobody ever drank, and fell in love again
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Paris
This short novel takes place in Paris but locations are vague and fairly anon. What the book does show is the place where pain and heartbreak can take you wherever it takes you. There are raw moments in the book that many will identify with and so this story in a way should have only one location – that of the human heart.
Since 2005, Calle has taught as a professor of film and photography at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She has lectured at the University of California, San Diego in the Visual Arts Department.[4] She has also taught at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Sophie Calle is mentioned in the novel – she is a real life artist who has had her work exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and many other places. She represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Mystery Guest
Destination/location: Paris, France Author/guide: Grégoire Bouillier Departure Time: 1990
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