The people in Simenon’s romans durs (“hard novels”) are driven and helpless, and [Letter to My Judge] ends, as it must, in tragedy. Has there ever been a more penetrating account of love’s destructive ...
John Banville, Wall Street Journal
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories
Guardian
A great writer of detail, of atmosphere
Leïla Slimani, Financial Times
The people in Simenon’s romans durs (“hard novels”) are driven and helpless, and [Letter to My Judge] ends, as it must, in tragedy. Has there ever been a more penetrating account of love’s destructive ...
John Banville, Wall Street Journal
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories
Guardian
A great writer of detail, of atmosphere
Leïla Slimani, Financial Times
The people in Simenon’s romans durs (“hard novels”) are driven and helpless, and [Letter to My Judge] ends, as it must, in tragedy. Has there ever been a more penetrating account of love’s destructive ...
John Banville, Wall Street Journal
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories
