Name: The Colours of the Inferno
Price: 13.49 GBP
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Author: Pierre Lemaitre
ISBN: 9780857059000

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Physical Book

Author

Pierre Lemaitre

Publisher

Quercus

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780857059000

The Colours of the Inferno

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Synopsis "The Colours of the Inferno"

"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen King The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy February, 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 Wynne From the reviews for The Great Swindle "The most purely enjoyable book I've read this year" Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph "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

Pierre Lemaitre

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(París, 1951) Escritor y guionista, estudió Psicología, creó una empresa de formación pedagógica e impartió clases de literatura. Autor tardío, en 2006 ganó el premio a la primera novela policíaca en el festival de Cognac con Irène. Consagrado como uno de los escritores más populares del momento, con más de tres millones de lectores en todo el mundo, su carrera literaria dio un vuelco asombroso con la aparición de Nos vemos allá arriba (Premio Goncourt 2013, entre una retahíla de distinciones). Su obra ha sido traducida a más de treinta idiomas.

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