Heatwave

‘A fiery page-turner’ * Entertainment Weekly *
‘Jestin’s charged and chilling debut turns on a stifling vacation that descends from purgatory into a nightmarish inferno’ * Publishers Weekly *
‘Victor Jestin succeeds in transporting us with almost nothing, this unique style, this voice—one might almost say these whispers…. A tour de force’ * Le Figaro Culture *
‘For his first novel, Victor Jestin displays a stunning literary talent. It’s short, pitiless, polished, perfectly realized’ * Livres Hebdo *
‘Every page burns your fingers’ * Le Figaro Magazine *
‘At 25, Victor Jestin makes his mark with an unsettling first novel’ * Elle *
‘An author so young, who succeeds in creating such a powerful fable, demands to be followed’ * Lire *
‘A sensual first novel that’s remorseless about the end of innocence’ * Le Vif L’Express *
‘A beautiful narrative that puts into play the kind of guilt that won’t quit a boy who’s alienated from his world and resistant to all its codes’ * Telerama *
‘Tense and brief, this text plays with the codes of a first novel to paint a portrait of a sad and aloof teenager’ * L’Humanite *

Victor Jestin is 25 years old. He grew up in Nantes and now lives in Paris. Heatwave is his first novel.

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