Laurent Binet: The 7th Function of Language, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The 7th Function of Language
- Original title: La septieme fonction du language
- Translation:
- Sam Taylor
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 01/2018
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781784703196
- Item number:
- 7799022
- Volume:
- 390 Pages
- Weight:
- 282 g
- Format:
- 196 x 131 mm
- Thickness:
- 30 mm
- Release date:
- 4.1.2018
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - Observer
Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.
But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language - an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything.
Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power to backstreet saunas and midnight meetings. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society.
Biography (Laurent Binet)
Laurent Binet wurde 1972 in Paris geboren. Er absolvierte seinen Militärdienst in der Slowakei und hat in Prag Geschichte studiert. Jetzt lebt er in Paris.
