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All Human Wisdom
Author: Pierre Lemaitre
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Retail Price: | $29.99 |
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ISBN: 9780857059000
Format: Paperback
Published: January 2021
Published By: Hachette Australia
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Published: January 2021
Published By: Hachette Australia
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The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogyThe second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogyA really excellent suspense novelist Stephen KingThe second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogyFebruary, 1927. The great and the good of Paris gather to attend the funeral of the powerful millionaire, Marcel Pericourt. 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 WynneFrom the reviews for The Great SwindleThe most purely enjoyable book I've read this year Jake Kerridge, Sunday TelegraphThe 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