{"product_id":"all-human-wisdom-9780857059000","title":"All Human Wisdom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisponibilità soggetta a conferma. Tempi di evasione dell'ordine comunicati al momento dell'acquisto.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terrific . . . E\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year\" David Mills, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A really excellent suspense novelist\" Stephen King\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel Péricourt. 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 Péricourt 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A brilliant, imaginative, free-falling caper through between-the-wars Paris, and a portrait of Europe on the edge of disaster.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTranslated from the French by Frank Wynne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Frank Wynne is an award-winning writer and translator. His previous translations include works by Virginie Despentes, Javier Cercas and Michel Houellebecq. His translation of \u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex I\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWith the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the reviews for\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Great Swindle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"The most purely enjoyable book I've read this year\" Jake Kerridge, \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eThe vast sweep of the novel and its array of extraordinary secondary characters have attracted comparisons with the works of Balzac. Moving, angry, intelligent - and compulsive\" Marcel Berlins, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Libreria Fiore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54120585789786,"sku":null,"price":21.38,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/7382\/1274\/files\/3515533482493.jpg?v=1778230357","url":"https:\/\/libreriafiore.it\/products\/all-human-wisdom-9780857059000","provider":"Libreria Fiore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}