The scapegoat
By: Daniel Pennac ; translated from the French by Ian Monk
Contributors: Monk, Ian, translator
Publisher: Harvill Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781860464423; 9781860464430
Subjects: Department stores; Fiction; Employees; Siblings; Families; World War, 1939-1945; Veterans; Bombings; Grands magasins; Romans, nouvelles; Personnel; Frères et sœurs; Familles; Attentats à la bombe; Brothers and sisters
Work titles: Au bonheur des ogres
Description: A comedy on a public relations man in a department store in Paris whose job is to mollify angry customers. Benjamin Malaussene is doing splendid work until the store is bombed and people die, whereupon he becomes a suspect.