Requiem for a Fish
 Cover of French edition | |
| Author | Christine Adamo |
|---|---|
| Original title | Requiem pour un poisson |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Liana Levi |
Publication date | 7 January 2005 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 348 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 2-86746-378-5 |
Requiem pour un poisson (Requiem for a Fish) is a 2005 novel by French author Christine Adamo.
Plot
The coelacanth is a very strange fish. On the one hand, this ancient species might have been the missing link between land and sea. On the other hand, everybody thought that it had disappeared long before dinosaurs' extinction. Yet, one day of 1938, a South African fisherman catches a specimen in its nets. But is the fish really the famous coelacanth? The world of science gets passionate and jealous around the beast. Who will be the first to trace the origins of mankind? Stealing, cheating, lying... murdering? And Why is Marie, this young pregnant Parisian, suddenly caught in this story?
Between Africa and the Comoro Islands, the Comoro Islands and Sulawesi, London and Paris, the world of ichthyology turns to a gripping thriller.
Release details
- 2005, France, Liana Levi, ISBN 2-86746-378-5, Pub date 7 January 2005
- 2006, France, Folio policier (Gallimard), ISBN 2-07-033658-1, Pub date 4 April 2006
- 2006, Netherlands ("Requiem vor een vis"), De Geus, ISBN 90-445-0705-2, Pub date 2006
- 2007, Italy ("Requiem per il Celacanto"), Effemme Edizioni, ISBN 978-88-87321-28-9, Pub date 2007