Title : The Very Private Life of Mr Sim - Jonathan Coe - Book

Summary :

Maxwell Sim is a forty-eight-year-old loser. Doomed to failure from birth (which was unwanted), pursued by failure in adulthood (his wife leaves him, his daughter gently laughs at him), he accepts himself as he is and even finds a certain satisfaction in his condition. But then an unexpected proposition takes him across England at the wheel of a hybrid Toyota, equipped with a GPS with a moving voice, which, through solitude, he will fall in love with. His adventure as a traveling salesman, a salesman of the latest toothbrushes, takes him back to the landscapes and faces of his childhood, notably to his father, about whom he makes strange discoveries: the novel is also a treasure hunt relaunched by the reappearance of letters, journals, manuscripts which introduce as many new elements to the file of the past. And Max always thinks of the Chinese woman and her daughter, seen in a restaurant in Australia, whose understanding and happiness of being together so fascinated him. Will he find them again? And for what new adventure? Joyfully blurring the lines between truth and imposture, Coe the illusionist reserves the last word in the story, which will not fail to surprise us. More than one generation will recognize themselves in this novel which enchants us with a very British humor, much preferable to despair.

• EAN: 9782070129744
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