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Bezig met laden... De kleuren van de branddoor Pierre Lemaitre
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  eyes.2c | Feb 8, 2023 |   David.llib.cat | May 11, 2022 | Ik hou niet van geschiedenis, maar wel van de manier waarop Pierre Lemaitre doodgewone personages in een bepaalde periode laat rondlopen. Als ik er in dit boek 1 moet uitpikken, is het toch wel Robert Ferrand, de man van 12 stielen en 13 ongelukken. Zeker ook chapeau voor de beschrijving van de andere karakters! De evolutie die Madeleine doormaakt van een verwaand lid van de bourgeoisie naar een uitgekookte vrouw met beide voeten op de grond bijv. En dan die humor van Pierre Lemaitre... De kennismaking van Vladi met Paul, de capriolen van Solange, de uitlatingen van Hortense, de dwaze reacties van Robert, de gedachten van Charles... Een steek onder water voor de vrouwen die zich door reclameslogans laten verleiden én voor de mannen die zich door Léonce het hoofd op hol laten brengen. Frappant hoe gebeurtenissen van bijna een eeuw geleden zo actueel aanvoelen: politiek gekonkel, belastingontduiking, doofpotoperatie, oplichting, vriendschapsfraude, een propagandamachine die een negatieve gebeurtenis tot een overwinning omtovert, vooroordelen... Ik kijk al uit naar het laatste boek van de trilogie. Jammer genoeg zonder de familie Péricourt. Adieu Marcel, Edouard, Madeleine et Paul. (  ) Lavidaesbella | Apr 4, 2022 | This is the second book in Lemaitre's trilogy set in Paris between the wars. I found this one quite difficult to engage with for the first section but once the plot had started to kick in properly I realised what makes Lemaitre so good. In common with many classical writers he takes a cast of characters and develops them slowly and with great care. Sometimes the prose drags a little but the sly humour is always there. ( ) pluckedhighbrow | Aug 31, 2021 |  ) devarebeke | Aug 15, 2021 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times "A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen King The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel Péricourt. His daughter, Madeleine, is poised to take over his financial empire (although, unfortunately, she knows next to nothing about banking). More unfortunately still, when Madeleine's seven-year-old son, Paul, tumbles from a second floor window of the Péricourt mansion on the day of his grandfather's funeral, and suffers life-changing injuries, his fall sets off a chain of events that will reduce Madeleine to destitution and ruin in a matter of months. Using all her reserves of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and a burning desire for retribution, Madeleine sets about rebuilding her life. She will be helped by an ex-Communist fixer, a Polish nurse who doesn't speak a word of French, a brainless petty criminal with a talent for sabotage, an exiled German Jewish chemist, a very expensive forger, an opera singer with a handy flair for theatrics, and her own son with ideas for a creative new business to take Paris by storm. A brilliant, imaginative, free-falling caper through between-the-wars Paris, and a portrait of Europe on the edge of disaster. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union From the reviews for The Great Swindle "The most purely enjoyable book I've read this year" Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph "The vast sweep of the novel and its array of extraordinary secondary characters have attracted comparisons with the works of Balzac. Moving, angry, intelligent - and compulsive" Marcel Berlins, The Times Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Whoever said ‘vengeance is a dish best served cold’ absolutely had Madeleine Péricourt in mind.
Set in prewar France of the late 1920’s, Madeleine is the heiress to a premier banking family.
On the day of her father’s funeral, inexplicably her beloved son Paul defenestrates himself out of the second storey onto his grandfather’s coffin.
When Madeleine’s fortunes suffered a reversal bought about by her jilted fiancé Gustavo Joubert (her father’s trusted senior executive) and aided by her companion Léonce, Madeleine throws off her cloak of despondency and takes action. She sets in place an involved and torturous revenge. For her lover Andre she has something else in mind.
The man who helps her, Monsieur Dupré is an interesting foil to Madeleine.
The pace is s_l _o_w to start with, but by the middle I was caught up in political, economical and social doings of the times, particularly as Hitler’s Germany is looming on the horizon like a dark cloud. France’s tax laws have the spotlight of history on them. Her Uncle Charles is involved.
Paul’s relationship with singer Solange Gallinato is pure opera. I loved it.
Vladi his polish nurse/assistant is a breath of fresh air.
Meanwhile Nazism and Fascism are murmuring in the distance, whilst Madeline makes her play.
Strangely beguiling. By the end I was hooked.
A Mobius Books ARC via NetGalley.
Many thanks to the author and publisher. (