Author: Douglas Kennedy
Translator: Dong-seop Cho
Publisher: Balgeunsesang
430 pages | 210*148mm
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About This Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World and The
Moment comes the riveting story of a luckless college professor for whom
Paris becomes a city of mortal danger.
A runaway bestseller in the UK and France that has been made into a film
starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas, this suspenseful tour de
force from the internationally renowned Douglas Kennedy is the
quintessential sophisticated commercial novel.
Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the
small American college where he used to teach has cost him his job, his
marriage, and the love of his only child. Hounded by scandal, he flees
to Paris, where a series of accidental encounters lands him in a grubby
room with a job as night watchman for a sinister operation. Just when he
begins to think he has hit rock bottom, romance enters his life in the
form of Margit?a cultivated, widowed Hungarian emigre who shares Harry¡¯s
profound loneliness but who keeps her distance, remaining guarded about
her past. As Harry wrestles with Margit¡¯s reticence, he begins to notice
that all those who have recently done him wrong are meeting unfortunate
ends?and it soon becomes apparent that he has stumbled into a nightmare
from which there is no escape.
The Woman in the Fifth further establishes Douglas Kennedy as an author
who ¡°always has his brilliant finger on the entertaining parts of human
sorrow, fury, and narrow escapes¡± (Lorrie Moore).
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