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| Original Title: | Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles |
| ISBN: | 0143121553 (ISBN13: 9780143121558) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Joséphine #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Prix Maison de la Presse for Roman (2006) |
Katherine Pancol
Paperback | Pages: 464 pages Rating: 3.56 | 11103 Users | 1015 Reviews
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Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two—confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé—is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ends meet on her meager salary as a medieval history scholar. Meanwhile, Joséphine’s charismatic sister Iris seems to have it all—a wealthy husband, gorgeous looks, and a très chic Paris address—but she dreams of bringing meaning back into her life. When Iris charms a famous publisher into offering her a lucrative deal for a twelfth-century romance, she offers her sister a deal of her own: Joséphine will write the novel and pocket all the proceeds, but the book will be published under Iris’s name. All is well—that is, until the book becomes the literary sensation of the season.
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| Title | : | The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (Joséphine #1) |
| Author | : | Katherine Pancol |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 464 pages |
| Published | : | December 31st 2013 by Penguin Books (first published March 1st 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Contemporary. Romance. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit |
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Ratings: 3.56 From 11103 Users | 1015 ReviewsComment On About Books The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (Joséphine #1)
The Ultimate Character Driven Novel!The were some of the most unforgettable fictional characters I've ever read. This novel was a totally new reading experience - because the characters were so FRENCH. Meaning that they have their own way about them - from fashion, to food, to beliefs on marriage and mistresses. I found myself laughing out loud, gasping with surprise, wanting to smack a few of these characters, feeling deeply sympathetic to Josephine and also deeply respecting her even when sheThe Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles is a novel that it is difficult to take your eyes off of while reading it. This is not in a sense that is completely bad or good; this fast-paced book by French author Katherine Pancol has plenty of ups and downs contained in its 400 plus pages.The book focuses on the silly day to day travails of Josephine Cortes, a researcher at the Centre National de la Reserche Scientifique in Paris. The outlandish people who populate her daily life make for numerous plots and
I heard the most charming review of this book (and another that Im reading right now: Alena by Rachel Pastan) on NPR. I bought it as soon as I got my hands on my Kindle.I wasnt as charmed by the book as I was by the review, but it turned out to be the kind of light, palette-cleansing book that was exactly what I needed this week. The book was written in French and translated to English by two people and that (in hindsight) makes a lot of sense. The book can feel abruptly disjointed. Almost like
I was listening to "Fresh Air" on NPR recently, as I often do in the morning, when one of their regular book reviewers started talking about this book. She went on about how it had been a best seller in France and had been translated into several different languages and had finally made it into English, translated by William Rodarmor and Helen Dickinson. She raved so about the book that I decided to put it on my TBR list, even though I knew nothing about the author. Indeed, I had never heard of
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles is the first novel in the Joséphine series by French author, Katherine Pancol. When she discovers her unemployed husband Antoine (call me Tonio) is having an affair with his manicurist, Joséphine Cortès kicks him out of their Paris apartment and resolves to somehow manage, with two daughters, on her own. Her meagre salary at the CNRS as a 12th Century historian will need to be supplemented; luckily, her brother-in-law, Philippe Dupin offers her some translation
Sisters: one is introverted and frumpy; the other is extroverted, sexy and has all the guys wrapped around her finger. So in this French novel, the sexy sister, who married into money through her good looks and appears to have it all, gets her frumpy sister, a medieval research historian, to ghost-write a historical novel for her. The medieval historian is in dire straits with two daughters and an ex-husband who just ran off to Africa with his girlfriend to raise crocodiles for the Chinese
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