Es «Gran café» un monólogo. El autor se despoja, para su nueva novela, de las apoyaturas que le son características: el realismo lírico, su maestría al describir, su gusto del paisaje. Escribe en esta ocasión para los más, pero no se desentiende de las minorías que, siempre afectas, le han admirado
The Grand Banks Café
✍ Scribed by Georges Simenon
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US;Penguin Classics
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 122 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0141976756
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Sailors don't talk much to other men, especially not to policemen. But after Captain Fallut's body is found floating near his trawler, they all mention the Evil Eye when they speak of the Ocean's voyage.
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