The Little Man from Archangel

Georges, Simenon

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Jonas, a Russian-Jewish immigrant bookseller, tells a small lie to protect his adulterous wife, little knowing the suspicion, hatred and resentment it will eventually provoke against him in the community where he has settled.

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Publish Date: 01/04/2021

Description

‘A unique teller of tales … What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate’ Observer

‘She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was collecting stamps.’

Jonas is used to his young wife disappearing. Everyone in the town knows that she goes off with other men. This time, however, he tells a small lie to protect her, saying she is visiting a school friend. It is a lie, however, that eats into him like an illness, provoking hostility and resentment of this timid little Russian-Jewish bookseller, who always thought he had been accepted. As suspicion mounts, his true, terrifying isolation is revealed.

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Weight 145 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 11 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

304

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

843.912 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K