by Jonathan Coe · ISBN 9782070446926
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«La vie très privée de Mr Sim» is Jonathan Coe's novel published by Gallimard in paperback (464 pages, in French).
Maxwell Sim, a forty-eight-year-old man settled into solitude, accepts an unexpected offer and travels across England in a hybrid car with a seductive-voiced GPS. Between toothbrush sales, he returns to his childhood and discovers papers that reopen his family's past. A story with humour and narrative games about identity and connection.
Originally published in English as «The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim» (2010), in a French translation by Josée Kamoun. Nominated for the European Book Prize for fiction in 2012.
A novel recommended for reading groups and for those who enjoy contemporary British fiction.
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.
