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The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
📚Literary fiction~736 pages
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In Paris just after the Liberation, a circle of left-wing writers and thinkers struggles with what to do with their hard-won freedom. Henri edits a resistance newspaper and must decide how far to support the Soviet Union as rumours of labour camps grow. Anne is a psychoanalyst married to an older political writer, and an unexpected love affair in America shakes her life. The novel follows friendships, rivalries and affairs through years of political pressure. It asks hard questions about commitment, truth, ageing and personal freedom. This is a large, absorbing and clear-eyed novel of ideas.
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