by David Coward (Author), Albert Cohen (Author), David Coward (Author), Albert Cohen (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 992
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 03 Nov 2005
ISBN 10: 0141188308
ISBN 13: 9780141188300