Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers (The Modern Classics Series)

This is the first English translation of French writer, Pierre Guyotat's legendary novel, which was recently included in Le Monde's "100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century." A violent collision of brutal warfare and sexual ecstasy, Guyotat is said to have hallucinated the subject matter as a young soldier during the Algerian war, where the novel is set.

Pierre Guyotat was born in France in 1940. His most recent book is Progenitors (Gallimard, 2000).