"...Grand roman sur l après-guerre de 14..." Rescapés du chaos de la Grande Guerre, Albert et Edouard comprennent rapidement que le pays ne veut plus d'eux. Malheur aux vainqueurs ! La France glorifie ses morts et oublie les survivants. Albert, employé modeste et timoré, a tout perdu. Edouard, artiste flamboyant devenu une « gueule cassée », est écrasé par son histoire familiale. Désarmés et abandonnés après le carnage, tous deux sont condamnés à l'exclusion. Refusant de céder à l'amertume ou au découragement, ils vont, ensemble, imaginer une arnaque d'une audace inouïe qui mettra le pays tout entier en effervescence... Et élever le sacrilège et le blasphème au rang des beaux-arts. Bien au delà de la vengeance et de la revanche de deux hommes détruits par une guerre vaine et barbare, ce roman est l'histoire caustique et tragique d un défi à la société, à l'Etat, à la famille, à la morale patriotique, responsables de leur enfer. Dans la France traumatisée de l'après guerre qui compte son million et demi de morts, ces deux survivants du brasier se lancent dans une escroquerie d'envergure nationale d'un cynisme absolu.

Au revoir là-haut - Prix Goncourt 2013 (French Edition)

PIERRE LEMAITRE

French and European Publications Inc

Camille: The Final Paris Crime Files Thriller (The Paris Crime Files)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

MacLehose Press

For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in for him - his every move is headline news. When he discovers that the killer has killed before - that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel - the fourth estate are quick to coin a nickname...The Novelist...With both men in the public eye, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner - whoever has the least to lose...

Irene: The Brigade Criminelle Trilogy Book 1

Irene

Literature & Fiction

The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines.  When another of D'Aulnay-Pradelle's soldiers, Albert Maillard, reaches the bodies and discovers how they died, the lieutenant shoves him into a shell hole to silence him. Albert is rescued by fellow soldier, the artist Edouard Péricourt, who takes a bullet in the face. The war ends and both men recover, but Edouard is permanently disfigured, and fakes his death to prevent his family from seeing him as a cripple. In gratitude for Edouard's rescue, Albert becomes the injured man's companion and caregiver.  Finding that the postwar gratitude for the soldiers' service is nothing more than lip-service to an empty idea, the two men scramble to survive, ultimately devising a scam to take money for never-to-be-built war memorials from small towns. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Pradelle has married Edouard's sister Madeline and is running a scam of his own that involves the exhumation of war victims.  In this sorrowful, heart-searching novel, the interwoven lives of these three men create a tapestry of the human condition as seen through the lens of war, revealing brutality and compassion, heroism and cowardice, in equal measure.

The Great Swindle

There can only be one winner - whoever has the least to lose...For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. When he discovers that the killer has killed before - and that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel - the newspapers are quick to coin a nickname - The Novelist.

Alex EXPORT

Quercus Hachette UK

All Human Wisdom

Maclehose Press Quercus

The Wide World (paperback)

Headline Publishing Group, London

Avril 1940. Louise, trente ans, court, nue, sur le boulevard du Montparnasse. Pour comprendre la scène tragique qu'elle vient de vivre, elle devra plonger dans la folie d'une période sans équivalent dans l'histoire où la France toute entière, saisie par la panique, sombre dans le chaos, faisant émerger les héros et les salauds, les menteurs et les lâches... Et quelques hommes de bonne volonté.Il fallait toute la verve et la générosité d'un chroniqueur hors pair des passions françaises pour saisir la grandeur et la décadence d'un peuple broyé par les circonstances.Secret de famille, grands personnages, puissance du récit, rebondissements, burlesque et tragique... Le talent de Pierre Lemaitre, prix Goncourt pour Au revoir là-haut, est ici à son sommet.

Mirror of our Sorrows

Genre Fiction

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