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Book Synopsis“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian
The first-ever English publication of Georges Simenon’s compelling novel about summer escape and elusive obsessions“The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son’s bed, the deafening sound of cicadas.”
During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles, Dr. Mahé caught a glimpse of something irresistible. As the memory continues to haunt him, he falls prey to a delusion that may offer an escape from his conventional existence—or may destroy him. Taut, insightful, and impossible to put down, this is the first English translation of
The Mahé Circle, Simenon’s dark, malevolent depiction o
Trade ReviewOne of Georges Simenon's most
powerful roman durs - the non-Maigret novels in which ordinary lives are suddenly, and at times seemingly inexplicably, unsettled and irrevocably changed. Written in Simenon's spare signature style, it's
unputdownably gripping -- John Gray * Guardian *
Sublime . . . as good, in its unforced and unemphatic way, as anything in Proust or even Flaubert . . . a sort of
masterpiece -- John Banville * New York Review of Books *
Extraordinary . . . Simenon is
one of the most important writers of the 20th century . . . In 150 high-pressure pages, it gives insights into the world, the mind and the horrible frustration of a French country doctor that most writers would struggle to convey with 10 times the word-count -- Sam Jordison * Independent *
