Mirror of our Sorrows

"Tremendous and enjoyable" - La Libre Belgique "A great success" - La Croix April, 1940. Louise Belmont runs, naked, down the boulevard du Montparnasse. To understand the tragic scene she has just experienced, she will have to plunge into the madness of the ''Phoney War'', when the whole of France, seized by the panic of a new World War, descends into chaos. Alongside bistro-owner Monsieur Jules, new recruit Gabriel and small-time crook Raoul, Louise navigates this period of enormous upheaval and extraordinary twists of fate, for as the Nazi''s advance, the threat of German occupation will uncover long-buried secrets and make strange bedfellows. With his characteristic wit and verve, Pierre Lemaitre chronicles the greatness and decline of a people crushed by circumstance. In Mirror of Our Sorrows , the final novel in the Paris between-the-wars trilogy, is an incandescent tale that is both burlesque and tragic. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Lemaitre, PIERRE LEMAITRE
• Assisted by: Frank Wynne (Translation), Wynne Frank (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.09.2023
• EAN: 9781529416916
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1691-6
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Historical adventure, Fiction in translation, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)