Книга: All Human Wisdom (Lemaitre Pierre); MacLehose Press, 2022

In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel Pericourt. His daughter, Madeleine, is poised to take over his financial empire (although, unfortunately, she knows next to nothing about banking). More unfortunately still, when Madeleine's seven-year-old son, Paul, tumbles from a second floor window of the Pericourt mansion on the day of his grandfather's funeral, and suffers life-changing injuries, his fall sets off a chain of events that will reduce Madeleine to destitution and ruin in a matter of months.

Using all her reserves of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and a burning desire for retribution, Madeleine sets about rebuilding her life. She will be helped by an ex-Communist fixer, a Polish nurse who doesn't speak a word of French, a brainless petty criminal with a talent for sabotage, an exiled German Jewish chemist, a very expensive forger, an opera singer with a handy flair for theatrics, and her own son with ideas for a creative new business to take Paris by storm.

A brilliant, imaginative, free-falling caper through between-the-wars Paris, and a portrait of Europe on the edge of disaster.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780857059017
Автор(ы)	Lemaitre Pierre
Вес	0.31
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2022
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	MacLehose Press
Издательство	MacLehose Press
Кол-во страниц	432
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	432
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая