The new novel from the author of No and Me, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Prix Goncourt. Two ordinary people who, before one day in May, Mathilde and Thibault had never met. They were just two anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed and shoved and pressured continuously by the loveless, urban world. Every day, the same routine, the same trains.UNDERGROUND TIME is a novel of quiet violence - the violence of office-bullying, the violence of the brutality of the city - in which our two characters move towards an inevitable meeting.