Lorraine Connection
Book description
The players in this deadly-serious game of Monopoly will stop at nothing.
In Pondange, Lorraine, the Korean Daewoo group manufactures cathode ray tubes. Working conditions are abysmal, but as it's the only source of employment in this bleak former iron and steel-manufacturing region, the workers daren't protest. Until a strike…
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1 author picked Lorraine Connection as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It opens with the most brilliant disclaimer I've ever seen: "Warning. This is a novel. Everything is true and everything is false."
Dominique Manotti is a grande dame of French crime fiction, and a friend and mentor to me. Lorraine Connection is widely considered her masterpiece.
It's a sweeping 21st-century epic that starts in what might be considered a French rust belt town, in the region called Lorraine, where the old steel and iron works have been bought by the Korean firm Daewoo and transformed into a cathode-ray factory.
An industrial accident is the triggering event in this novel that…
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