A new translation in the Penguin Maigret series- the inspector uncovers some poisonous family politics.
Georges Simenon (Author)
Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid
traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and
off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human
condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector
Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its
evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating
psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in
the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where
he had lived for the latter part of his life.
Ros Schwartz (Translator)
Ros Schwartz is an award-winning translator from French. Acclaimed
for her new version of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little
Prince, published in 2010, she has over 100 fiction and non-fiction
titles to her name.
The French government made Ros a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et
des Lettres in 2009, and in 2017 she was awarded the Institute of
Translation and Interpreting's John Sykes Memorial Prize for
Excellence.
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other
writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as
Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set
of characters - above all, an atmosphere
*Financial Times*
Gem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world's bestselling
detective series, but an imperishable literary legend . . . he
exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry, but by the
melded powers of therapist, philosopher and confessor
*The Times*
Terrific...the 75 Inspector Maigret books are almost uniformly
wonderful. They are not crime or even detective fiction as
ordinarily understood...they are about human foibles, moral
failings and compromises, set in an evocatively atmospheric
Paris
*Sunday Times*
A great writer of detail, of atmosphere
*Financial Times*
A genius … Simenon broke all the rules
*Daily Telegraph*
The novels brim with atmosphere, insight and intelligence . . .
quite unlike anything else written before or since
*The Times*
Exceptional… Simenon’s writing still seems fresh…one of the great
pleasures is the summoning of France’s many landscapes and
accompanying social milieux . . . There is also, and it’s a chief
glory of the books, a whole range of different Parises, from the
shiny rich to the hypocritical bourgeois middle to the struggling,
furious world of the poor, desperate and professionally
criminal
*Times Literary Supplement*
I never read contemporary fiction–with one exception: the works of
Simenon
*T.S. Eliot*
One of the most important writers of our century
*Gabriel García Márquez*
An astute observer of human nature, writing in a spare and vivid
style
*Amor Towles*
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