This chilling portrayal of a man who breaks from society and goes on the run asks who we are, and what we are capable of.
Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium, in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove 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. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
Fierce, bleak and compellingly written . . . with pitiless
landscapes of hopeless longing, random cruelty and galloping fate
warmed only by the twilit lyricism of doomed desire. These are
novels of eye-opening, spine-tingling control and intensity.
*The Independent*
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon
was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was
masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his
stories
*Guardian*
Compelling . . . Simenon shows how close the deranged mind is to
the ordinary mind'
*Financial Times*
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
