All Human Wisdom
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times
"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen King
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"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen King
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"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen King
The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy
In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel Péricourt. His daughter, Madeleine, is poised to take over his financial empire (although, unfortunately, she knows next to nothing about banking). More unfortunately still, when Madeleine's seven-year-old son, Paul, tumbles from a second floor window of the Péricourt mansion on the day of his grandfather's funeral, and suffers life-changing injuries, his fall sets off a chain of events that will reduce Madeleine to destitution and ruin in a matter of months.
Using all her reserves of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and a burning desire for retribution, Madeleine sets about rebuilding her life. She will be helped by an ex-Communist fixer, a Polish nurse who doesn't speak a word of French, a brainless petty criminal with a talent for sabotage, an exiled German Jewish chemist, a very expensive forger, an opera singer with a handy flair for theatrics, and her own son with ideas for a creative new business to take Paris by storm.
A brilliant, imaginative, free-falling caper through between-the-wars Paris, and a portrait of Europe on the edge of disaster.
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
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, and as sole winner for Camille. In 2013 his novel Au revoir là-haut (The Great Swindle, in English translation) won the Prix Goncourt, France's leading literary award. Frank Wynne is an award-winning writer and translator. His previous translations include works by Virginie Despentes, Javier Cercas, Mathias Énard, Michel Houllebecq and Pierre Lemaitre. He chaired the jury of the 2022 Booker International. Most recently his translation of The Art of Losing won the 2022 Dublin Literary Award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Pierre Lemaitre
- 2022, 432 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Frank Wynne
- Verlag: Quercus
- ISBN-10: 0857059017
- ISBN-13: 9780857059017
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.02.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
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