SIMENON SIMENON "REPORT" - THE LITTLE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL... EXCLUSION, PARANOIA AND LONELINESS .

One small lie – told to protect his young and flighty wife – becomes a lie that threatens everything a middle-aged bookseller holds dear in a profound and moving novel from one of the most feted European authors of the 20th century.

The Visitor - 22/03/2021 - Pam Norfolk - The Little Man from Archangel, first published in in 1957 and flawlessly translated by Sian Reynolds in this new edition, is a harrowing, haunting tale of exclusion, paranoia and loneliness, and one of a selection of Simenon’s celebrated standalone novels being published by Penguin. At the heart of the story is Jonas Milk, a timid man of Russian-Jewish descent, who lives quietly above his second-hand bookshop in a small French town. He feels at home there until he marries his maid Gina, a woman with a bad reputation who proves to be neither a good housekeeper nor a faithful wife. Jonas is used to Gina disappearing…>>>