by Robert van Gulik · 10/18 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264020772
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«Le Jour de grâce» is the historical crime novel by Robert van Gulik, published by 10/18 in paperback (152 pages, in French).
Set in Amsterdam, the novel follows Johann Hendricks, a former Dutch colonial official repatriated after World War II. Van Gulik composes a tale between Chase and Simenon, with echoes of his Judge Dee, where the protagonist faces strange inner and mystical battles in a world of gin, tobacco and sawdust.
The work, whose original English title is The Given Day, belongs to the Grands Détectives collection.
For readers of historical mystery and admirers of Robert van Gulik interested in another facet of the author.
Robert Hans van Gulik was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.
