All Human Wisdom

By Pierre Lemaitre

Book Overview

In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel P ricourt. 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 P ricourt 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857059017
• ISBN13: 9780857059017
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Arcadia
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.6"