All Human Wisdom

Pierre Lemaitre, Frank Wynne

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MacLehose Press
14 September 2021

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

"""Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year"" David Mills, The Sunday Times

""A really excellent suspense novelist"" Stephen King

The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy

In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel Pericourt. 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 Pericourt 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.

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.

A brilliant, imaginative, free-falling caper through between-the-wars Paris, and a portrait of Europe on the edge of disaster.

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

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 Vernon Subutex I was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.

With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

From the reviews for The Great Swindle

""The most purely enjoyable book I've read this year"" Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph

""The 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, The Times"

By: Pierre Lemaitre
Translated by: Frank Wynne
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 660g
ISBN: 9780857058997
ISBN 10: 0857058991
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 14 September 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pierre Lemaitre was born in Paris in 1951. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature before becoming a novelist. He was awarded the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger, alongside Fred Vargas, for Alex. In 2013 his novel Au revoir la-haut (The Great Swindle, in English translation) won the Prix Goncourt, France's leading literary award.

Reviews for All Human Wisdom

Pierre Lemaitre: unleashed * Liberation * An epic inhabited by flamboyant characters and imbued with an all-consuming drama * Figaro * Literature with conviction; a furious talent * L'Obs * A perfectly orchestrated comedie humaine * Journal du Dimanche * Confirms the genius of a great novelist and storyteller * Express *