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  • Published: 30 November 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141188300
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 992
  • RRP: $55.00

Her Lover



Reissue of this Classic French novel with new English title

Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one hope for redemption is through love - and he embarks on the audacious seduction of Ariane, the beautiful, daydreaming wife of a dull-witted, social-climbing employee of the League.

In Her Lover, Albert Cohen created a world humming with the many vivid and eccentric voices of its wonderfully observed characters. Brilliantly inventive and baroquely detailed, this magnificent novel is a merciless satire of middle-class manners and ambitions, and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.

  • Published: 30 November 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141188300
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 992
  • RRP: $55.00