Her Lover : Belle du Seigneur

Author: Cohen, Albert

Brand: Penguin

Edition: UK ed.

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 992

Release Date: 29-11-2005

model number: B017MYRZUE

Part Number: B017MYRZUE

Details: Product Description
Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one hope for redemption is through love - and he embarks on the audacious seduction of Ariane, the beautiful, daydreaming wife of a dull-witted, social-climbing employee of the League.In Her Lover, Albert Cohen created a world humming with the many vivid and eccentric voices of its wonderfully observed characters. Brilliantly inventive and baroquely detailed, this magnificent novel is a merciless satire of middle-class manners and ambitions, and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.
About the Author
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Leeds and has translated many books from French for Penguin Classics.

EAN: 9780141188300

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 3.0 inches

Languages: English, French