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All Human Wisdom Pierre Lemaitre

All Human Wisdom von Pierre Lemaitre

All Human Wisdom Pierre Lemaitre


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Zusammenfassung

The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy

All Human Wisdom Zusammenfassung

All Human Wisdom Pierre Lemaitre

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 Pericourt. 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 Pericourt 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

All Human Wisdom Bewertungen

An epic inhabited by flamboyant characters and imbued with an all-consuming drama * Figaro *
Literature with conviction; a furious talent * L'Obs *
Confirms the genius of a great novelist and storyteller * Express *
Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year -- David Mills * The Sunday Times *
A perfectly orchestrated comedie humaine * Journal du Dimanche *
Lemaitre is always readable and his caustic wit shines through -- Antonia Senior * The Times *
Pierre Lemaitre: unleashed * Liberation *

Über 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 la-haut (The Great Swindle, in English translation) won the Prix Goncourt, France's leading literary award.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR012237177
9780857059017
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All Human Wisdom Pierre Lemaitre
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Quercus Publishing
2022-02-03
432
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