# The Flood

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/j-m-g-le-clezio/the-flood/9780141928395

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/j-m-g-le-clezio/the-flood/9780141928395.json

![The Flood](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin/jean-marie-le-clezio/the-flood_978-01-4192-839-5.jpg?v=2026-04-23%2023%3A18%3A16)

- Book: [The Flood](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-m-g-le-clezio/the-flood) ([The Flood.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-m-g-le-clezio/the-flood.md))
- Authors: [J. M. G. Le Clézio](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-m-g-le-clezio)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4192-839-5
- Published: 2008-11-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

François Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside. And, as Besson moves through an ugly and threatening rain, his thoughts eventually lead to violence, first turned outward and then directed languidly against himself.