The Mandarins: A novel
by Simone de Beauvoir
Category: France

"In wartime Paris, a group of friends gather to celebrate the end of the German occupation and to plan their future. Ex-Resistance fighter Henri is eager to resume his life while his lover Paula wants to revive their affair. Robert is determined to enter politics while Anne, his psychiatrist wife, is distracted by an affair. An epic romance and a philosophical manifesto, The Mandarins is Simone de Beauvoir's most famous and profound novel and a winner of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt. It is punctuated by wickedly accurate portraits of Sartre, Camus and other intellectual giants of the time."--BOOK JACKET.