Pierre and Jean Paperback – 14 November 2023

A sudden windfall has unintended consequences. This short novel is so marvelously powerful, full of melancholy and perhaps ending happily, or at least ending as it had to.

C'est la première fois que je vois cela. Edition inutilisable. texte inintelligible et Illisible du fait de mots rognés, mots anglais , mauvaise frappe. TRES MAUVAIS. J'ai dû , pour le lire, commander une autre édition.

wonderful story, poor translation, this particular translation was missing de Maupassant's commentary and had no introduction by the translator., both needed for background info. I would have returned this printing but needed a copy for my book group, overpriced too, .

A very fast read, a tale of two brothers, one who has it all and one that doesn't, or does he? A family torn apart by an inheritance. Set in a Normandy fishing town at the end of the 19th century, French literature at it's best.

Although there isn't much action in the story and not even that many events it is still captivating in the way that it is written.