by Georges Simenon · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788421704738
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«Barrio negro» is the novel by Georges Simenon, published by Ed. Luis de Caralt in paperback (191 pages, in Spanish).
Engineer Joseph Dupuch arrives with his wife Germaine in San Cristóbal and discovers that his employer has gone bankrupt; the check he presents has no funds. She takes a job as a hotel cashier, while he sinks into alcohol and feels drawn to Véronique, in a portrait of poverty and rootlessness.
This 1977 edition belongs to the collection «Las Novelas de Simenon» (11x18 cm) and includes the translation by J. Gómez del Castillo; the original work, «Quartier Negre», dates from 1935.
For readers of realist and social fiction interested in déclassé characters and settings of poverty.
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels, 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies.
