by Thierry Jonquet · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020799126
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«Mon vieux» is the crime novel by Thierry Jonquet, published by Éd. du Seuil in paperback (387 pages, in French).
Alain Colmont, a teacher and screenwriter, ruins himself to restore the face of his daughter Cécile after a scooter accident. In La Courneuve and Belleville, an elderly man with Alzheimer's, a group of destitute people, and a homeless man struggle to survive in the summer of 2003. The heatwave hits the most disadvantaged, and their fates end up intertwined.
The novel belongs to the Points Policier collection. Thierry Jonquet is also the author of Mygale, Les Orpailleurs, Moloch, and Ad vitam aeternam.
For readers of crime fiction and the French roman noir, with an interest in social and urban realism.
Thierry Jonquet was a French writer who specialised in crime novels with political themes. He was born in Paris; his most recent and best known novel outside France was Mygale (1984), then published in the US in 2003 by City Lights. Mygale was also published in the UK as Tarantula in 2005. He wrote over 20 novels in French, including Le bal des débris, Moloch and Rouge c'est la vie.
