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Jonas, a Russian-Jewish immigrant bookseller, tells a small lie to protect his adulterous wife, little knowing the suspicion, hatred and resentment it will eventually provoke against him in the community where he has settled.
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When his sexy young wife fails to come home one night, Jonas Milk tells his inquisitive neighbours she is visiting a friend. But his innocent attempt to protect Gina's reputation provokes hostility and suspicion among the residents of the Vieux-Marche - who know very well she has been having flagrant affairs throughout her marriage to the quiet little bookseller. Soon Jonas's small lie leads him into a nightmare of police inquiries and painful discoveries.In The Little Man from Archangel, Simenon portrays a tragic miscarriage of justice and the overwhelming wave of memories it triggers in Jonas's mind of his lost family, scattered during the traumatic events of the Russian Revolution.
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