The Adversary
Publisher
:
P.O.L
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782867446825
Description
The shocking tale of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go. "On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean-Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting." So Emmanuel Carrère, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, begins this riveting tale of unfathomable deception. Who could have imagined Romand as a murderer? He was, after all, a noted physician at the World Health Organization, a groundbreaking researcher with connections to international humanitarians, a financial wizard entrusted with his in-laws’ savings, a loving son who called his parents every evening. If there was a problem, no one knew it. As it turned out, there were many: Romand had no medical degree; he had no job; he knew no one famous; he had spent his in-laws’ money. And when a relative went to break the terrible news to Romand’s parents, they too were dead—murdered by the stranger who had been their son. A mesmerizing account of the hundreds of daily lies that propelled one man’s life, The Adversary—another name for the Devil—is also a meditation on the mystery of identity, evil, and the desperate logic by which it is easier to kill than to confess.
Author
Emmanuel Carrère : Emmanuel Carrère is one of France's most critically acclaimed writers, the author of screenplays, a biography of Philip K. Dick, and two novels, including Class Trip, which won the prestigious Prix Femina. A major bestseller in France, The Adversary is being published in eighteen countries. Carrère lives in Paris. Linda Coverdale's many translations include Patrick Chamoiseau's Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows, Carrère's Class Trip, and Jorge Semprun's Literature or Life, a winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.
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