Yeah I know. I feel guilty too. Mea Culpa. Mea Culpa. The Interrogation won him the Prix Renaudot--a major literary prize. He was only 22--23 years old at the time. I liked it but one could get the sense of incompleteness with it--of a young writer trying to find his voice. I think he hit his stride in his next books--Fever, The Flood. .