Name: All Human Wisdom
Price: 391.83 ZAR
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Author: Pierre Lemaitre
ISBN: 9780857058997

Type

Physical Book

Author

Pierre Lemaitre

Publisher

Maclehose Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780857058997

All Human Wisdom

Pierre Lemaitre (Author) · Maclehose Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "All Human Wisdom "

"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 KingThe second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogyIn 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 WynneFrom 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

Pierre Lemaitre

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Pierre Lemaitre (Paris, 1951) is a French writer and screenwriter known for his talent in crime fiction and historical narrative. With a nimble, psychological style full of tension, he has captured the attention of both readers and critics. He began his career with the series featuring detective Camille Verhoeven, but gained international projection with The Great Swindle, a novel set after World War I that earned him the prestigious Goncourt Prize in 2013. Among his most notable works are Irene, Alex, Rosy & John, Inhuman Resources, and the historical trilogy that continues with The Colors of the Fire and The Mirror of Our Sorrows. Lemaitre has masterfully blended intrigue, social critique, and psychological depth in stories that leave a mark on his readers.

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