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People Opposite, The

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People Opposite, The

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SKU: 9780241534724 Category: Product ID: 450554

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Title: People Opposite, The
Author: SIMENON GEORGES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 31/05/2022
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active

An extraordinary tale of betrayal from the celebrated author of the Maigret series

On the shore of the Black Sea, on the edge of the Soviet Union, a little city has a new Turkish consul. Adil Bey – alone in an alien land – has taken the job after the mysterious death of his predecessor. Receiving only suspicion and hostility, he soon becomes reliant on his secretary, Sonia, for any taste of intimacy. They begin a quiet love affair, and from his window at the consulate, he watches her and her family go about their lives in the room across the way.

But this is Stalin’s world before the war, and nothing is as it seems. . .

Georges Simenon’s most starkly political work, The People Opposite is a tour de force of slow-burn tension and existentialist meditation.

ISBN: 9780241534724
Pages: 160
Edition: 01