by Pierre Lemaître · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782226392121
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«Couleurs de l'incendie» is the historical novel by Pierre Lemaître in paperback (534 pages, in French).
February 1927: the elite attends the funeral of banker Marcel Péricourt, but his seven-year-old grandson Paul falls from a second floor onto the coffin. Madeleine, heiress to the empire, is driven to ruin; amid greed, corruption and ambition, she must use her intelligence to survive while Europe heads toward catastrophe.
Second part of the trilogy «Les Enfants du désastre», inaugurated with «Au revoir là-haut», winner of the 2013 Prix Goncourt.
For readers of historical fiction and French literary fiction, with an interest in the interwar period.
Pierre Lemaitre is a French writer who won the 2013 Prix Goncourt for The Great Swindle, known both for his Commandant Camille Verhœven crime novels and for sweeping historical sagas.
