The Mandarins
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007203949 (0007203942)
Publish date: May 3rd 2005
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 752
Edition language: English
Added because of Manny's review (most of which is in If Research were Romance)http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38259698
A lot of people appear to dislike Les Mandarins, which I think is a pretty excellent novel, so let me try and explain what I think is good about it. To me, it's basically about what happens to people (particularly to women) when they realize that they are no longer young. This has several consequenc...