Returning to Papa Doc Duvalier's Haiti to sell his empty hotel, the cynical Brown finds himself entangled with a British couple posing as a presidential candidate and his wife, an idealistic American vegetarian activist, and the doomed resistance to a regime built on terror.
Books mentioned in The Comedians (6)
Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire: “Wasn't I a comedian with my verses smelling of Les Fleurs du Mal, published on handmade paper at my own expense?”
Das Kapital by Karl Marx: “"...several of Gaboriau's romans policiers, Renan's Vie de Jésus, and rather surprisingly among its companions Marx's Das Kapital rebound in exactly the same calf so that it was indistinguishable at a distance from Les Misérables." — genuine description of the books on Brown's family library shelves.”
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo: “"There were Les Misérables in three volumes, Les Mystères de Paris with the last volume missing..." — described on Brown's family library shelves.”
The Mysteries of Paris by Eugène Sue: “"There were Les Misérables in three volumes, Les Mystères de Paris with the last volume missing..." — described on Brown's family library shelves.”
Vie de Jesus by Ernest Renan: “"...several of Gaboriau's romans policiers, Renan's Vie de Jésus, and rather surprisingly among its companions Marx's Das Kapital..." — described on Brown's family library shelves.”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “That had been finally wrecked by a college performance of Romeo and Juliet in its very staid French translation.”
Books that mention The Comedians (1)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: “There is a book in the pocket of the trench coat, a copy of The Comedians by Graham Greene”