Author:Albert Cohen,David Coward
Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one hope for redemption is through love - and he embarks on the audacious seduction of Ariane, the beautiful, daydreaming wife of a dull-witted, social-climbing employee of the League.
In Her Lover, Albert Cohen created a world humming with the many vivid and eccentric voices of its wonderfully observed characters. Brilliantly inventive and baroquely detailed, this magnificent novel is a merciless satire of middle-class manners and ambitions, and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.
Sophisticated comedy-what gives it its distinction is the quality of observation and the unusual marriage of high spirits with melancholy awareness of the passing of time
—— ScotsmanIrresistible
—— Literary ReviewAn acute observer of manners and styles
—— IndependentHere is an imagination that effortlessly brings character after character to valiant, preposterous, malevolent or desperate life. Here is a writer who deserves to be far more widely read
—— SpectatorIt has a lightness, a breadth... an impressive energy and a humane comedy... Entertaining and affecting
—— Times Literary SupplementWhy is he not spoken of in the same breath as Amis, Barnes and co? One of the best novels I have read this year
—— D. J. Taylor , Independent on SundayThe only bad thing about this novel is that it had to end
—— Sunday Telegraph
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