The Godmother

WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZE WINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE Meet Patience Portefeux - 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen... and soon to become The Godmother. For 25 years she has toiled honestly, translating police wire-taps of north African drug gangs. She knows she's just a footsoldier in a senseless politicians' war against high-grade hashish, a tiny cog in the state machinery of racism and repression. But it's always paid the bills - until now. The scrimping French state pays its translators 'off the books', meaning there'll be no pension to reward her long years of service. With her... alles anzeigen expand_more

WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZE

WINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE

Meet Patience Portefeux - 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen... and soon to become The Godmother.

For 25 years she has toiled honestly, translating police wire-taps of north African drug gangs. She knows she's just a footsoldier in a senseless politicians' war against high-grade hashish, a tiny cog in the state machinery of racism and repression. But it's always paid the bills - until now.

The scrimping French state pays its translators 'off the books', meaning there'll be no pension to reward her long years of service. With her mother's extortionate care home eating her savings, a lonely and impoverished old age lies ahead. So when Patience gets the chance to take possession of a vast stash of top-quality Moroccan Khardala, she doesn't hesitate long. Exit the grey-suited civil servant. Enter The Godmother. Life in the banlieues will never be the same again.



Hannelore Cayre is an award-winning French novelist, screenwriter and director, as well as a practising criminal lawyer. Her most recent novel, The Godmother (La Daronne) has been made into a feature film starring Isabelle Huppert, and is scheduled for release in early 2020. She lives in Paris.

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  • Artikelnummer SW9781910400975110164
  • Autor find_in_page Hannelore Cayre
  • Mit find_in_page Stephanie Smee
  • Autoreninformationen Hannelore Cayre is an award-winning French novelist, screenwriter… open_in_new Mehr erfahren
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  • Verlag find_in_page Old Street Publishing
  • Seitenzahl 224
  • Veröffentlichung 31.10.2019
  • ISBN 9781910400975

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