The Little Man from Archangel

The Little Man from Archangel

Author	Georges Simenon
Original title	Le Petit Homme d'Arkhangelsk
Country	Belgium
Language	English, French
Genre	Crime fiction
Publisher	Presses de la Cité
Publication date	1956
Published in English	1957
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	159 pp (in 1957 Hamish Hamilton edition)
Preceded by	The Rules of the Game
Followed by	Maigret Has Scruples

The Little Man from Archangel, (original title Le Petit Homme d'Arkhangelsk), first published in English by Hamish Hamilton in 1957,^[1] is a novel by Georges Simenon.

Plot summary

Set in a small market town in France, this is a bleak story of prejudice, isolation and loneliness. Jonas Milk is a Russian Jew who runs a second-hand book shop and leads a quiet unassuming life. Married to a promiscuous younger French woman, he wakes one day to find she has disappeared. Assuming she has run off with another man for a few days, as she has done before, Jonas tells his neighbours and his wife’s family that she has gone to visit a friend. When the wife fails to return as expected people begin to suspect him of murdering her. Rather than admit his wife’s previous infidelities, the little man maintains his lie in the face of increasing hostility and isolation until he is driven to despair.

Adaptations

The story has been adapted for the BBC radio drama series BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Drama,^[2] first aired on August 3, 2011, starring Steven McNicoll and Francesca Dymond.

References

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