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Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years previously. Unmoored from society and estranged from his daughter, he shuts himself away, numbed by endless bottles of burgundy. But when a dead man is found in his house one night, the resulting police investigation unearths secrets that shake the town - and Loursat's isolation - to the core. No longer able to ignore the world, he emerges to take on the murder case himself and confront the lives of Moulins' by-ways and back streets. In the progressive break-down of Loursat's self-imposed isolation, Simenon brilliantly depicts the psychology of loneliness and a man's tortured re-engagement with humanity and its darkest acts.
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The Strangers in the House, Georges Simenon
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- Année de publication
- 2021
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- Titre
- The Strangers in the House
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Georges Simenon
- Éditeur
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
- Publié
- 2021
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0241487099
- ISBN13
- 9780241487099
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Polars & Thrillers, Polars, Classiques, France, Noir, Belgique
- Titre original
- Les inconnus dans la maison
- Évaluation
- 3,55 sur 5
- Description
- Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years previously. Unmoored from society and estranged from his daughter, he shuts himself away, numbed by endless bottles of burgundy. But when a dead man is found in his house one night, the resulting police investigation unearths secrets that shake the town - and Loursat's isolation - to the core. No longer able to ignore the world, he emerges to take on the murder case himself and confront the lives of Moulins' by-ways and back streets. In the progressive break-down of Loursat's self-imposed isolation, Simenon brilliantly depicts the psychology of loneliness and a man's tortured re-engagement with humanity and its darkest acts.