Georges Simenon

Broschiertes Buch

The Flemish House

Inspector Maigret

Transl. by Shaun Whiteside

Beschreibung

Maigret is asked to the windswept, rainy border town of Givet by a young woman desperate to clear her family of murder. But their well-kept shop, the sleepy community and its raging river all hide their own mysteries.

Autor

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

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Produktdetails

• Inspector Maigret
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 845892
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9780141394770
• ISBN-10: 0141394773
• Artikelnr.: 40603966

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One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above all, an atmosphere John Banville Financial Times