The engagement
By: Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis ; afterword by John Gray.
Contributors: Moschovakis, Anna.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translation of: Les fiançailles de M. Hire
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781590172285
Work titles: Fiançailles de M. Hire.
Description: Simenon (1903-1989), creator of Inspector Maigret, dispassionately describes the fate of the odd Mr. Hire, a reclusive middle-aged man whose life of dull routine begins an inevitable slide into disaster when a prostitute is brutally murdered near his apartment in a Paris suburb. Guilty only of a slightly disreputable occupation, a voyeuristic fascination and an unusual physical appearance, Hire inadvertently seals his fate with mundane, unremarkable observations and suggestions.