Description
A quiet life in a small French town is shattered when Jonas Milk—an introverted Russian-Jewish librarian and bookseller—wakes to find his world subtly, ominously altered. As he searches for answers, the disappearance of Gina, his free-spirited wife and a woman sixteen years his senior, pulls him into a web of secrets that reaches far beyond their shop and stamps. With the steady pressure of a mystery and the emotional weight of memory, the novel explores identity, displacement, and the fragile boundaries between love, fear, and self-invention. In Georges Simenon’s characteristically direct, suspense-driven style, Jonas’s investigation becomes a portrait of a man trying to understand what he has—and hasn’t—known all along.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2021
192 pages
ISBN: 9780241487068
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Details
First Published
1955
Language
eng
Translation
From: fra
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