Another slim, powerful novel from this excellent writer: as in The Order of the Day, he shows the web of overlapping and competing interests amongst politicians, industrialists and financiers in the time of war – this time it’s 1950, when France was embattled in Indo-China.
An Honourable Exit
£14.99
Edition:Hardback978103500397620/04/2023
Categories: 04. Spring Books 2023: Fiction, Fiction, Spring Books 2023
Tags: Empires & Colonialism, Fiction in Translation, France
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A gorgeous book on one of the greatest French cabinetmakers of all time, based on the work in the Wallace Collection.
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