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The Great Swindle
Au revoir là-haut
Pierre Lemaitre (born 1951)
Translated by Frank Wynne
English editions
In EnglishThe Great Swindle
MacLehose Press · United States · September 2015 · Hardcover · 448 pages
The Great Swindle
MacLehose Press · United Kingdom · 2015 · 461 pages
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Albert and Édouard came through the trenches only to find that France worships its fallen and ignores its survivors. Albert, a mild bank clerk, is left with nothing; Édouard, a flamboyant artist with a ruined face, carries a crushing family past. Rejected and refusing bitterness, they hatch an outrageous fraud that will shake a wounded nation.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 566 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, 1918–1920
- First published
- 2013 by Albin Michel
- Author's age
- 62 when first published
- ISBN
9782226249678 (original)
9781623659035 (MacLehose Press, United States)
9781848665804 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)
- More
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