King Solomon
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Paris hums with forgotten lives, and none is more quietly desperate than that of Jeannot, a young man adrift in the city who falls into an unlikely friendship with an aging Jewish millionaire known as King Solomon — a man of immense wealth, deep loneliness, and an unshakeable devotion to the memory of lost love. Romain Gary's King Solomon is a bittersweet tragicomedy set against the vibrant, melancholic backdrop of 1970s Paris, weaving together themes of memory, mortality, and the strange, redemptive power of human connection across generational divides. Gary — one of the most singular voices in twentieth-century French literature, and the only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice — writes with a warmth that is at once ironic and deeply compassionate, crafting characters who are bruised by history yet irrepressibly alive. Published posthumously, King Solomon stands as a testament to Gary's enduring preoccupation with love as an act of resistance against the absurdity of existence. Touching, funny, and quietly devastating, it leaves the reader wondering whether Solomon's greatest treasure was ever his fortune at all.
Author: Romain Gary
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Harper & Row
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Paris hums with forgotten lives, and none is more quietly desperate than that of Jeannot, a young man adrift in the city who falls into an unlikely friendship with an aging Jewish millionaire known as King Solomon — a man of immense wealth, deep loneliness, and an unshakeable devotion to the memory of lost love. Romain Gary's King Solomon is a bittersweet tragicomedy set against the vibrant, melancholic backdrop of 1970s Paris, weaving together themes of memory, mortality, and the strange, redemptive power of human connection across generational divides. Gary — one of the most singular voices in twentieth-century French literature, and the only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice — writes with a warmth that is at once ironic and deeply compassionate, crafting characters who are bruised by history yet irrepressibly alive. Published posthumously, King Solomon stands as a testament to Gary's enduring preoccupation with love as an act of resistance against the absurdity of existence. Touching, funny, and quietly devastating, it leaves the reader wondering whether Solomon's greatest treasure was ever his fortune at all.