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The Blue Room
  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141399041
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Blue Room

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1 Jan 2015
Paperback
25 Feb 2015
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A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust

'He felt no resentment towards Andree for biting his lip. In the context of their lovemaking, it had its place'

For Tony and Andrée, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hôtel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape. Simenon's stylish and sensual psychological thriller weaves a story of cruelty, reckless lust and relentless guilt.
  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141399041
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

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Also by Georges Simenon

Stan the Killer
The Cat
The Widow Couderc
The Hatter's Ghosts
The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret
The Venice Train
The People Opposite
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Praise for The Blue Room

A wondrous achievement, brief, inexorable, pared to, and agonisingly close to, the bone, and utterly compelling; in short, a true and luminous work of art.

Irish Times, John Banville

A double crime, a dark provincial scandal, and a dreadful sort of triumph . . . presented with shattering power

San Francisco Chronicle

One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories

Guardian

A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness

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