# Her Lover

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- Book: [Her Lover](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-cohen/her-lover) ([Her Lover.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-cohen/her-lover.md))
- Authors: [Albert Cohen](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-cohen), [David Coward](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-coward)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-830-0
- Pages: 992
- Published: 2005-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one hope for redemption is through love - and he embarks on the audacious seduction of Ariane, the beautiful, daydreaming wife of a dull-witted, social-climbing employee of the League. In Her Lover, Albert Cohen created a world humming with the many vivid and eccentric voices of its wonderfully observed characters. Brilliantly inventive and baroquely detailed, this magnificent novel is a merciless satire of middle-class manners and ambitions, and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.