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Title: All Human Wisdom
Author: LEMAITRE PIERRE
Illustrator: WYNNE FRANK (TRANS)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 12/01/2021
Imprint: MACLEHOSE PRESS
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
n 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealth banker, Marcel Pericourt. His daughter, Madeleine, is poised to take over his financial empire (although, unfortunately, she knows next to nothing about banking). More unfortunately still, certain vultures who have long envied and resented Marcel Pericourt, are beginning to circle, and when Madeleine’s seven-year-old son, Paul, tumbles from a second floor window of the Pericourt mansion on the day of his grandfather’s funeral, and suffers life-changing injuries, it does not take long for these vultures to hone in on the Pericourt millions, conspiring to 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.
ISBN: 9780857059000
Pages: 400