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The Thread

Christophe Bourdin

Christophe Bourdin was certain he would be the author of a single book. Diagnosed HIV-positive at the height of the epidemic in Paris, he began writing the exquisitely beautiful, painfully intense pages that would become The Thread. It begins with the hypochondriac days: days of obsessive hygiene, of microscopic attention to contamination, of seeing dangers everywhere. In serpentine sentences that[Bokinfo]

192 pages

English edition · First published 2026 by Faber & Faber · ISBN 9781805680390

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