![]() ![]() His anguish is increased by the fact that his most valuable stamps, which only she knew about, are gone from his safe. As the days pass, his lies are believed by fewer and fewer neighbours, who begin to shun him,Īnd somebody informs the police. However, one day when she has not come home and Milk, to spare himself yet more embarrassment, lies over her whereabouts. ![]() Though she disappears with other men from time to time, she always returns soon after to Milk. ![]() She is neither a good housekeeper nor a faithful wife, and causes Milk considerable embarrassment and shame. He feels at home amongst the other small businesses in the town, until he marries his maid, a much younger woman with a bad reputation and converts to Catholicism. Left in an unnamed town in Berry by his Jewish parents, who returned to Soviet Russia and oblivion, the timid Jonas Milk lives quietly above his second-hand bookshop and also deals in rare stamps. As she fails to reappear, and first his neighbours and then the police become suspicious, his grip on his own life weakens. One day his promiscuous wife disappears, not for the first time, but this time she has taken his valuable stamp collection. It tells the story of Jonas Milk, a man whose Russian-Jewish parents, refugees from Archangel, brought him up in a little French town where he owns a bookshop. The Little Man from Archangel, (original title Le Petit Homme d'Arkhangelsk), first published in English by Hamish Hamilton in 1957, is a novel by Georges Simenon. ![]()
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