Monsieur Monde is a prosperous middle-aged businessman in Paris. One morning he wakes up beside his wife and realizes that he is sick of it all. He walks out, leaving everything behind. He washes up along the Riviera, among whores, pimps, drunks, thieves and their marks, and he stays there, watching, biding his time, waiting for the sign that will show him who he is.

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Widely acknowledged as one of Simenon's finest books, Dirty Snow is a study of the criminal mind. It tells the story of nineteen-year-old Frank, a pimp, a thug, a petty thief, who lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother's whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. Hans Koning has described Dirty Snow as "one of the very few novels to come out of German-occupied France that gets it exactly right."

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An actor, recently divorced, at loose ends in New York; a woman, no less lonely, perhaps even more desperate than the man: they meet by chance in an all-night diner and are drawn to each other on the spot. Roaming the city streets, hitting its late-night dives, dropping another coin into yet another jukebox, these two lost souls struggle to understand what it is that has brought them, almost in spite of themselves, together.

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