Pierre Lemaitre

Broschiertes Buch

The Great Swindle

Prize-winning historical fiction by a master of suspense

Übersetzung: Wynne, Frank

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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.

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

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