The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
'Quite simply a masterpiece' John Banville
'I've just found a stranger in my house. In a bed on the second floor. He was dying when I got there. You're going to have to deal with it'
Hector Loursat has been a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years ago. Shut away in his dilapidated mansion in the small town of Moulins, he barely speaks to his daughter. But when the sound of a gunshot penetrates the padded walls of his study one night, and he discovers a body, Loursat is forced to act. No longer able to ignore the world, he determines to get to the truth of what happened, and save an innocent life.
Quite simply a masterpiece -- John Banville
More philosophically profound than any of the fiction of Camus or Sartre, and far less self-consciousThis is existentialism with a backbone of tempered steel * New Republic *
More philosophically profound than any of the fiction of Camus or Sartre, and far less self-consciousThis is existentialism with a backbone of tempered steel * New Republic *
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241487099 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241487099 |
| Title | The Strangers in the House |
| Author | Georges Simenon |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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