Pedigree
Simenon, Georges / Baldick, Robert / Sante, Luc Pedigree "is Georges Simenon's longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on a memoir of his Belgian childhood. He showed the initial pages to Andre Gide, who urged him to turn them into a novel. The result was, Simenon later quipped, a book in which everything is true but...