Pierre Lemaitre

The Great Swindle

Prize-winning historical fiction by a master of suspense
Übersetzung:Wynne, Frank

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Produktbeschreibung

Now a major French film Au revoir là -haut - Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irà ne and Camille.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MacLehose Press / Quercus
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781848665798
• ISBN-10: 1848665792
• Artikelnr.: 44490434

Autorenporträt

Pierre Lemaitre was born in Paris in 1956. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature and now devotes his time to writing novels and screenplays. In 2013 he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, for Au Revoir Là-Haut. Frank Wynne is a translator from French and Spanish. His translations include works by Michel Houellebecq, Marcelo Figueras's IFFP-shortlisted Kamchatka, and the Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy (Alex, Irène, and Camille), by Pierre Lemaitre.

Rezensionen

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