{"product_id":"the-mahzs-circle-romans-durs-9781250425874","title":"The Mahé Circle (Romans Durs)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA shattering study of restlessness and midlife crisis on the ocean, from an icon of bleak fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrançois Mahé took his family on vacation to Porquerolles, a sun-drenched Côte d'Azur island, only because a friend suggested it. His everyday life as a small-town doctor was sedate and predictable, but contented--until he experienced the strange, hostile energy of Porquerolles, with its intense heat and deafening thrum of cicadas. Now François is consumed with a terrible restlessness, a mutinous longing that settles on an impoverished young girl. He doesn't love her, he tells himself, or even desire her. Yet for what she represents--danger, newness, a renunciation of passivity--he may just set a match to everything. A pitiless meditation on the irreconcilable lures of belonging and freedom, \u003ci\u003eThe Mahé Circle\u003c\/i\u003e is Georges Simenon at the height of his disturbing powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\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 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250425874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\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":52537460490421,"sku":"9781250425874","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8ea04397-c185-445d-9dd0-cf65e3d8f3eb.jpg?v=1779169652","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-mahzs-circle-romans-durs-9781250425874","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}