by Peter Mayle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782841110919
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«La femme aux melons» is the mystery novel by Peter Mayle, published by Nil Editions in paperback (332 pages, in French).
A New York photographer working on a report in the south of France sees a Cézanne being loaded into a van in front of a closed villa. His curiosity leads him to investigate a possible art theft and to cross clues between the United States and France, with the Provençal landscape and the author's characteristic humor as a backdrop.
The novel was translated from English by Jean Rosenthal; the original title is «Chasing Cézanne» (1991).
Aimed at readers of mystery novels with an interest in art and French settings such as Provence and the French Riviera.
Peter Mayle was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. He wrote a series of bestselling memoirs of his life there, beginning with A Year in Provence (1989).
