The 7th Function of Language
Language: English
Published by Harvill Secker, 2017
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Whispering Chicken Books, Stratford-Upon-Avon, United KingdomWhispering Chicken Books
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This is a new book but in storage the cover has some creasing at the top and bottom. Please see photos.
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- Title
- The 7th Function of Language
- Author
- Laurent Binet
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1910701580
- ISBN 13
- 9781910701584
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 541 grams
- Dimensions
- 14.4 centimeters width by 22.2 centimeters height by 3.5 centimeters depth
'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you’ll read this year' - Observer
‘The most outrageously entertaining novel of the year… A joy’ - Philip Hensher
Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.
But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language – an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything.
Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight rendezvous. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society.
In the world of intellectuals and politicians, everyone is a suspect. Who can you trust when the idea of truth itself is at stake?
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About the Author
Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated more than 60 books from French including Laurent Binet's HHhH and Leila Slimani's Lullaby.
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Whispering Chicken Books
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