Her Lover Belle Du Seigneur

Handsome worldly and intelligent Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as UnderSecretaryGeneral of the League of Nations he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the selfserving 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 dullwitted socialclimbing 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 middleclass manners and ambitions and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.