num_pages: 992
description: Handsome, worldly, and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one hope for redemption is through love - and he embarks on the audacious seduction of Ariane, the beautiful, daydreaming wife of a dull-witted, social-climbing employee of the League.In Her Lover, Albert Cohen created a world humming with the many vivid and eccentric voices of its wonderfully observed characters. Brilliantly inventive and baroquely detailed, this magnificent novel is a merciless satire of middle-class manners and ambitions, and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.
language: English
title: Her Lover
titlecomplete: Her Lover
genres: Classics, France, Roman, Novels, Romance, 20th Century, Literature, French Literature, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3486
series: Les Valeureux
awards: awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Scott Moncrieff Prize
category: David Coward, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd