Georges Simenon (Author)
Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium, in 1903. He is best
known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his
prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him
a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in
Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of
his life.
Sensuously detailed . . . edgy . . . this is incrementally more and
more riveting, as the joyless sex between the two central
characters leads to a grim conclusion . . . a nonpareil new
translation
*Financial Times*
When I discovered that the author of the Maigret series was also
the author of stand-alone novels, my expectations of the genre
changed and expanded. These books belonged more alongside Camus and
Sartre than Arthur Conan Doyle. . . . Try The Widow, published,
like The Outsider, in 1942, and at least equal to Camus's work in
portraying a doomed and alienated life
*Guardian*
Dark, disturbing . . . Simenon discovered something fundamental
about the soul
*Guardian*
Direct, spare, sensously atmospheric, hypnotic in its realism, and
honest in a way that few novelists would dare to be
*John Banville*
To me, Simenon is as good as Camus
*Guardian*
Irresistible . . . read him at your peril, avoid him at your
loss
*The Sunday Times*
Every year, Simenon would rage at the “idiots of Stockholm” who yet
again had refused him the Nobel Prize in literature. I used to
think this was crazy; now I think it quite sane. His romans durs
are spare and harsh, with a deep understanding of human nature;
this is one of his finest
*The Week*
The genius of Simenon, aided by a brilliant translation, compels
the eye and captures the heart.
*Daily Mail*
A welcome new translation of a key Simenon standalone. With its
sensuously detailed rustic setting and edgy interactions between a
widow managing her own farm and the dissolute, privileged
ex-convict Jean, this is quietly hypnotic fare
*Financial Times*
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