The Great Swindle

by Pierre Lemaitre · first published 2013

The Great Swindle (original title: Au revoir là-haut) is a 2013 novel by Pierre Lemaitre set in France in the aftermath of the First World War. It was published in French in 2013 by Albin Michel under its original title, and subsequently released in an English translation by Frank Wynne in 2015 by MacLehose Press. It won several notable awards, such as the Prix Goncourt, and was adapted into a film, See You Up There, in 2017. It is the first of three planned novels of Lemaitre spanning the interwar period.

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Genre:

Historical fiction

Original language:

French

Year page:

2013