by Jonathan Coe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070142798
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«Expo 58» is the novel by Jonathan Coe published by Gallimard in paperback, with 329 pages, in French.
In 1958 London, Thomas Foley, a civil servant at the Ministry of Information and a recent father, agrees to oversee the British Pavilion and the pub Le Britannia at the Brussels World's Fair. There he crosses paths with Chersky, a Russian journalist with KGB methods; Tony, a scientist on the ZETA nuclear machine; and Anneke, a Belgian hostess. Coe parodies the spy novel and portrays an England divided between modernity and tradition.
Originally published in 2011, this French edition from Gallimard (2014) includes a translation by Josée Kamoun. Winner of the European Novel Prize Casino de Santiago (2018).
For readers of historical fiction and espionage with humour, also interested in the portrait of 1950s London and the Cold War.
Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.
