The Little Man from Archangel

<p><b>'A unique teller of tales ... What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br><i>'She was beautiful full of vitality and he was sixteen years older a dusty lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was collecting stamps.'<br></i><br>Jonas is used to his young wife disappearing. Everyone in the town knows that she goes off with other men. This time however he tells a small lie to protect her saying she is visiting a school friend. It is a lie however that eats into him like an illness provoking hostility and resentment of this timid little Russian-Jewish bookseller who always thought he had been accepted. As suspicion mounts his true terrifying isolation is revealed.</p>