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The 7th function of language / Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

The 7th function of language / Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
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ISBN 9781910701591 (paperback)
Name Binet, Laurent author.
Uniform title Septième fonction du langage. English
Title The 7th function of language / Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
Published London : Harvill Secker, 2017.
©2017
Description 390 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes First published in French in 2015 as La Septième fonction du langage.
Summary Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language - an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything. Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight rendezvous. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society. In the world of intellectuals and politicians, everyone is a suspect. Who can you trust when the idea of truth itself is at stake?
Language note Translated from the French.
Subjects Barthes, Roland -- Death and burial -- Fiction
Paris (France) -- Fiction
Genre Thrillers (Fiction)
Biographical fiction
Other Names Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator.
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