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OverviewLondon between the wars was a place of anxiety and uncertainty. After the postwar boom of the 1920s, the aftereffects of the stock market crash hit London and, even as the fortunes of the aristocracy went into decline, there was hunger and a rising tide of virulent fascism. It is in this setting that Max, a French journalist looking for his next story, and Lena, an American singer, find themselves in Hédi Kaddour’s Little Grey Lies. Once lovers, but now friends, Max and Lena travel with Lena’s new man, Thibault, and with Max’s barely masked jealousy. Then they meet the striking Colonel Strether, the epitome of military decorum and bearing. An aging war hero, Strether seems to Max to be his best chance at a story, but as the two men talk, it seems Stether may not be who he says he is and the old soldier’s past begins to trouble Max and Lena as they crash forward through memories and truths not theirs. As in his other work, internationally renowned poet and novelist Hédi Kaddour offers shifting time-frames and kaleidoscopic viewpoints in a mannered metafictional thriller that bears comparison to both Robert Coover and John Le Carré. Little Grey Lies is historical suspense at its best. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hedi Kaddour , Teresa Lavender FaganPublisher: Seagull Books London Ltd Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd Dimensions: Width: 1.30cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.10cm Weight: 0.312kg ISBN: 9780857420985ISBN 10: 0857420984 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 18 October 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""Little Grey Lies is a very British novel, steeped in the atmosphere of Edgar P. Jacobs and the vintage grandeur of Blake and Mortimer. Thinner but no less ambitious than Waltenberg, this is an elegant novel.""-Pierre Assouline, Le Monde""" Little Grey Lies is a very British novel, steeped in the atmosphere of Edgar P. Jacobs and the vintage grandeur of Blake and Mortimer. Thinner but no less ambitious than Waltenberg, this is an elegant novel. -Pierre Assouline, Le Monde Author InformationHedi Kaddour is professor of French literature at New York University's Paris campus. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator who lives in Chicago. She has published more than twenty translations. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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