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The Mahé Circle (Romans Durs)
Paperback
Series: Romans Durs
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.00
ISBN13: 9781250425874
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jun 23 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
A shattering study of restlessness and midlife crisis on the ocean, from an icon of bleak fiction.
François Mahé took his family on vacation to Porquerolles, a sun-drenched Côte d'Azur island, only because a friend suggested it. His everyday life as a small-town doctor was sedate and predictable, but contented--until he experienced the strange, hostile energy of Porquerolles, with its intense heat and deafening thrum of cicadas. Now François is consumed with a terrible restlessness, a mutinous longing that settles on an impoverished young girl. He doesn't love her, he tells himself, or even desire her. Yet for what she represents--danger, newness, a renunciation of passivity--he may just set a match to everything. A pitiless meditation on the irreconcilable lures of belonging and freedom, The Mahé Circle is Georges Simenon at the height of his disturbing powers.
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