Dr Tony Shaw

On the face of it, nothing much happens in 174 pages, but then this is Christian Oster: much psychologising over anything said or done, ...

On the back cover of the poche edition of Christian Oster's Mon grand appartement (1999), Patrick Kéchichian states that an Oster ...

A man without a woman, and a woman who has the upper hand. That sentence could be (broadly) used to begin a description of Christian Oste...

Although published nearly ten years after the last book of his I read ( Dans le train  (2002)) many of the hallmarks of the previous boo...

Dans le train , published a year after Une femme de ménage , also has an odd young woman as the central point of focus, and the unmistaka...

My first Christian Oster, and certainly not my last. I think it's true to say that I've never disliked any author published b...