Lemaitre, P: All Human Wisdom
(Sprache: Englisch)
"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen King
The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy
February, 1927. The great and the good of Paris gather to attend the funeral of the powerful millionaire,...
The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy
February, 1927. The great and the good of Paris gather to attend the funeral of the powerful millionaire,...
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"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen KingThe second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy
February, 1927. The great and the good of Paris gather to attend the funeral of the powerful millionaire, Marcel Péricourt. His daughter, Madeleine, is poised to take charge of his financial empire, but it seems fate has other plans for her. Her young son, Paul, with one unexpected and tragic act, will place Madeleine on the path to ruin and degradation.
Faced with the adversity of men, the greed of her time, the corruption and the ambition of her associates, Madeleine will have to deploy reserves of intelligence, determination and also a Machiavellian instinct to survive and rebuild her life. This task is made all the more difficult in a France that can only watch, helpless, as the first flames of the inferno that will soon ravage Europe begin to take hold.
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
From the reviews for The Great Swindle
"The most purely enjoyable book I've read this year" Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph
"The vast sweep of the novel and its array of extraordinary secondary characters have attracted comparisons with the works of Balzac. Moving, angry, intelligent - and compulsive" Marcel Berlins, The Times
Autoren-Porträt von Pierre Lemaitre
Pierre Lemaitre was born in Paris in 1951. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature before becoming a novelist. He was awarded the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger, alongside Fred Vargas, for Alex. In 2013 his novel Au revoir là-haut (The Great Swindle, in English translation) won the Prix Goncourt, France's leading literary award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Pierre Lemaitre
- 427 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Quercus Publishing Plc
- ISBN-10: 0857059009
- ISBN-13: 9780857059000
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.06.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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