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''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.



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Quite simply a masterpiece -- John Banville
More philosophically profound than any of the fiction of Camus or Sartre, and far less self-conscious. This is existentialism with a backbone of tempered steel * New Republic *

The Strangers in the House

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 4 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9780241487099
      978-0241487099
      ISBN-10 0241487099
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      Crime & Thrillers Books by Georges Simenon

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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.



      Trade Review
      Quite simply a masterpiece -- John Banville
      More philosophically profound than any of the fiction of Camus or Sartre, and far less self-conscious. This is existentialism with a backbone of tempered steel * New Republic *

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