The Strangers in the House

The Strangers in the House
Howard Curtis, Georges Simenon
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 224pg
4 Nov 2021 UK
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9780241487099
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A new translation of a twisting detective novel from the celebrated author of the Maigret seriesHector 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 himself and confront the lives of Moulins' by-ways and back streets. In the progressive break-down of Loursat' s self-imposed isolation, Simenon brilliantly depicts the psychology of loneliness and a man' s tortured re-engagement with humanity and its darkest acts.
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 (Author) Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241487099
Published: 4 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 224

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