Fiction
The Inheritors
Hannelore Cayre, translated by Stephanie Smee
Description
She had been dead now for four days and I had become rich. Unimaginably rich.
Blanche de Rigny has always considered herself the black sheep of the family. And a black sheep on crutches at that. But it turns out her family tree has branches she didn’t even know existed. And many of them are rotten to the core. As Blanche learns more about the legacy left by her wealthy Parisian ancestors, she decides a little family tree pruning might be in order.
But great wealth also brings great responsibility – a form of richesse oblige, perhaps – and Blanche has a plan to use her inheritance to cure the world of its ills.
Spanning two centuries, from Paris on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War to the modern day, this unforgettable family saga lays bare the persistent and poisonous injustice of inequality. In her trademark razor-sharp style, Hannelore Cayre again delivers the sardonic humour and devilish creativity that made The Godmother an international bestseller.
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Endorsements
"Richesse Oblige [The Inheritors] has everything we love about [Hannelore Cayre]; damaged but memorable characters, sharp language, ferocious humour, an undercurrent of political rage, a punchy narrative and lashings of subversion." —Lire literary magazine
"As corrosive as ever, the author of The Godmotherunleashes her caustic eloquence in an hilariously black tale that mocks the self-perpetuation of the élite." —Paris Match
"Social justice fuels the noir works of this author and lawyer: the little guys win, the powerful lose. So it was in The Godmother, in 2017, and so it is again, now more than ever, in The Inheritors." —Le Monde
"[Cayre’s] language takes your breath away, as the author so often does with her rapid-fire style." —Causette magazine
"A work of noir fiction worth its weight in gold." —Le Journal de Montréal
"A funny, irreverent and exhilarating novel, in the purest tradition of French anarchistic crime novels." —Femme Actuelle Senior
"A fabulous work of crime fiction – very funny and very politically incorrect – masterfully drawn by a specialist in the genre." —Bernard Poirette, Europe 1 podcast
"Hannelore Cayre’s new novel is sharp, subversive and irreverent with truly memorable characters, a political undertone and the kind of dark humour only a French crime writer of the highest calibre can do so well." —Kate McIntosh, Readings
"A tightly plotted and darkly funny tale of trade in human bodies and souls." —Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Age
Author Biography
HANNELORE CAYRE is a French writer, director and criminal lawyer. The Godmother won the European Crime Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and has been shortlisted for a Crime Writers’ Association Dagger award. The Godmother was also featured on The New York Times’ ‘100 Notable Books of 2019’ list and has been made into a major film starring Isabelle Huppert. The Inheritors is her latest book.
STEPHANIE SMEE left a career in law to work as a literary translator. Recent publications include the translations of Hannelore Cayre’s The Godmother, and Françoise Frenkel’s rediscovered World War II memoir No Place to Lay One’s Head, which was awarded the JQ–Wingate Prize. Her translation of Joseph Ponthus’ prize-winning work, On the Line, is forthcoming.
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- Publisher Black Inc.
- Publication Date September 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781760642662
- Publication Country or regionAustralia
- FormatPaperback
- Pages240
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleEnglish
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions210 x 135 mm
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