The Strangers in the House
$21.04
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2022
Summary
Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years previously. Unmoored from society and estranged from his daughter, he shuts himself away, numbed by endless bottles of burgundy. But when a dead man is found in his house one night, the resulting police investigation unearths secrets that shake the town - and Loursat’s isolation - to the core. No longer able to ignore the world, he emerges to take on the murder case him…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241487099 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241487099 |
| Author: | Georges Simenon, Howard Curtis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 178g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Quite simply a masterpiece
Quite simply a masterpiece – John Banville
More philosophically profound than any of the fiction of Camus or Sartre, and far less self-conscious. This is existentialism with a backbone of tempered steel * New Republic *
Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon
Born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903, Georges Simenon was an intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people. He strove, both 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. Simenon died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
Howard Curtis
Howard Curtis has translated more than a hundred books, mostly fiction, from French, Italian, and Spanish for publishers in the UK and the USA. His work includes over twenty novels in the Penguin Simenon series. He has won several major awards and has also taught translation.
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