Literary / Francophone literature

The President

by Georges Simenon & Daphne Woodward

Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a “tour de force”

At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement—self...

Empress

by Shan Sa

Such is the voice of Shan Sa's unforgettable heroine in her latest literary masterpiece, Empress. Empress Wu, one of China's most controversial figures, was its first and only female emperor, who emerged in...

David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair

by Irene Nemirovsky & Sandra Smith

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda...

The Train

by Georges Simenon & Robert Baldick

Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a “normal” life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront...