{"product_id":"the-little-man-from-archangel-romans-durs-9781250426154","title":"The Little Man from Archangel (Romans Durs)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this minor-key masterpiece, a gentle bookseller seeks only obscurity until, buffeted by fate and misunderstood by his supposed friends, he makes a shocking decision. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiffident, bespectacled Jonas Milk, a bookseller and stamp collector, has always lived unobtrusively. His Russian Jewish family of origin was deracinated, or worse, during the world wars. But Jonas found peace, and a kind of belonging, in his small French town. At age thirty-eight, he even converted to Catholicism and married a high-spirited younger woman, Gina. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf Gina is unfaithful, who is Jonas to object? And, one summer, when she fails to come home for days--well, that's nothing new. Except this time, almost accidentally, he lies about her whereabouts to his neighbors. Suddenly, he falls under suspicion. It is shattering: for all his best efforts to fit in, he's evidently seen as an outsider, a foreigner. Even, perhaps, a murderer. With \u003ci\u003eThe Little Man from Archangel\u003c\/i\u003e, a rueful masterpiece wrought with a miniaturist's precision, Georges Simenon scales the peak of his gifts as a storyteller of rare complexity and acuity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250426154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Georges Simenon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53458845466805,"sku":"9781250426154","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781250426154.jpg?v=1791297363","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-little-man-from-archangel-romans-durs-9781250426154","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}