The Wide World

Resumen del libro

The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut.

The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business manufacturing and exporting artisanal soaps. He hoped to pass the business on to his eldest son, Jean, but Jean doesn't have the sharpness or aptitude for such an enterprise. After nearly running the company into the ground, Jean marries a money-grubbing young woman who quickly makes him miserable, and they emigrate to Paris.

But there's another reason Jean must leave - he has committed a terrible crime... His brother, Etienne, travels to Saigon, where he soon uncovers irregularities in the local currency office and begins investigating what he believes is a scheme to channel smuggled goods and cash to the Viet Minh. It is evidence that presents a real threat to his own life.

Francois, the middle Pelletier brother, has gone to Paris, ostensibly to study, but finds himself working as a journalist. His career flies when he reports on the brutal murder of an actress in a cinema ladies' room. It seems a serial killer is on the loose.

'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre will remind you of' Sunday Times'Pierre Lemaitre skilfully captivates and stuns the reader' Le Figaro

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Pierre Lemaitre x{0026}lt;/B (París, 1951) estudió Psicología, creó una empresa de formación pedagógica e impartió clases de literatura. Autor tardío, en 2006 ganó el premio a la primera novela policíaca en el festival de Cognac con x{0026}lt;I Irènex{0026}lt;/I , primera entrega de una serie que incluye x{0026}lt;I Alexx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Rosy x{0026}amp; Johnx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Camillex{0026}lt;/I . Consagrado como uno de los escritores más populares de hoy, con más de tres millones de lectores, su carrera literaria dio un vuelco con x{0026}lt;I Nos vemos allá arriba x{0026}lt;/I (Premio Goncourt 2013), primer volumen de Los hijos del desastre , una aclamada trilogía editada por Salamandra que sigue con x{0026}lt;I Los colores del incendiox{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El espejo de nuestras penasx{0026}lt;/I . En Salamandra han aparecido también el x{0026}lt;I Diccionario apasionado de la novela negrax{0026}lt;/I , y las novelas x{0026}lt;I Tres días y una vidax{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I La gran serpiente y El ancho mundox{0026}lt;/I , y las dos primeras entregas de su saga Los años gloriosos : x{0026}lt;I El ancho mundox{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El silencio y la cólerax{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P