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The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos. Undoubtedly Maigret was a hostile existence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of overseas body that the hotel's atmosphere cannot assimilate. Not that he looked like a animation policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well minimize and made of rather light worsted. He shaved every day and taken care of his hands. But his body was proletarian. He was a large, bony man. His firm muscles done his coat and quickly taken all his trousers out of condition. He had a means of imposing himself simply by located there. His assertive existence experienced often irked a lot of his own colleagues. In Simenon's first novel boasting Maigret, the laconic detective is extracted from grimy pubs to luxury hotels as he traces the true id of Pietr the Latvian. Georges Simenon was created in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Most widely known in Britain as the author of the Maigret literature, his prolific outcome of over 400 books and short reports have made him children name in continental European countries. He passed on in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he previously resided for the second option part of his life. David Bellos is Director of this program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton College or university and has gained many awards for his translations like the Man Booker International Translator's Award (2005).
