Douce, douce vengeance
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Published
Paris, France : Les Presses de la Cité, 2021.
Status
Forest Ave. Library - World Languages Fiction - Adult
French Jonasson, J.
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French Jonasson, J.
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Published
Paris, France : Les Presses de la Cité, 2021.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 23 cm
Language
fre
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First published in Sweden, in Swedish, as: Hämnden är ljuv.
Description
"Vous souhaitez venger un affront sans vous salir les mains? Nous avons la solution! Des milliers de clients satisfaits dans le monde entier." Tout le monde a ses petites rancunes, rien de plus humain. Mais pour passer à l'acte sans prendre de risques inconsidérés, mieux vaut faire appel à un professionnel expérimenté et discret. Hugo Hamelin a une idée visionnaire : créer une société de vengeance à la carte, un service sur mesure destiné à laver affronts, camouflets, coups bas et autres vexations. Rien ne prédestinait pourtant Hugo à croiser la route d'un marchand d'art cynique et sans scrupule, d'une jeune ingénue moins oie blanche qu'il n'y paraît, d'un orphelin jeté en pâture aux lions, ou d'un homme-médecine kenyan qui se double d'un guerrier massaï. Sans compter la peintre expressionniste Irma Stern ! Si le business s'annonce lucratif, il risque aussi d'être plus délicat que prévu..." --,back cover
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"Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn't occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors - which have him running back to Stockholm as fast as you can say male sexual-mutilation. Back in Stockholm, Kevin's path crosses with Jenny's - and they have an awful lot to talk about, not least a shared desire to get even with Victor. So it's convenient when they run into a man selling revenge services, who has an ingenious idea involving Victor's cellar, a goat, some forged paintings, four large boxes of sex toys, and 2 pounds 3.2 ounces of flour ..." --,edited synopsis from goodreads.com
Language
In French.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jonasson, J. (2021). Douce, douce vengeance . Les Presses de la Cité.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jonasson, Jonas, 1961-. 2021. Douce, Douce Vengeance. Les Presses de la Cité.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jonasson, Jonas, 1961-. Douce, Douce Vengeance Les Presses de la Cité, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jonasson, Jonas. Douce, Douce Vengeance Les Presses de la Cité, 2021.
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