The audiobook cover of The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier showing two windows torn into a piece of paper. Through the top window can be seen a blue sky with some white clouds; through the bottom, a very dark sky with ominous clouds.The ending of
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier

Other Press (NY), 2021; audiobook: Penguin Random House Audio, 2021.


The text reads: It's difficult to describe what happens, there's no word in the language to define accurately the slow vibration through the planet, the infinitesimal pulsing that is felt at the same time all over the world, just as much by the cat that was sleeping by the fire in a log cabin in Arkansas as the greylag goose flying across the skies over Bordeaux, and the Zambezi falls and the pristine snow on Annapurna, the Rialto over the Grand Canal in Venice, and the congested main road in the huge Dharavi slum, in the dirty sponge left on the edge of the sink in Montjoux and the punctured old tire on a garage forecourt in Mumbai and the red cup f c ffe wi h its I y bra d g i tor Mi el' h d a d i th b l [line break and then centered] on An ' t gue No  e c  d a c  ly sa h  w ti e gr [line break] ua ly sp  d  un l t re  w  a u [line break] re l, b r l y  pe c pt [line break] le  w h i t e   n [line break] o i s e [line break] d st [line break] e [line break] [line break] n [line break] d