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Daniel Pennac was born in Casablanca in 1944, his father being in the army. He travelled widely in his youth, in Europe, Asia and Africa, and has been employed in a number of capacities, including woodcutter, Paris cab driver, illustrator and schoolteacher. His "Belleville Quintet", written round the character of Benjamin Malaussène, has been published in many languages.These are...classic page-turners, in which the loyalty and decency of ordinary (and not so ordinary) people contrive to vanquish villains and tyrants
- Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement
Already a bestseller in its native country, it deserves to be one here if there's any justice in the world of crime
- Maxim Jakubowski, Time Out
There is only profit and pleasure to be had in this wise, good-humoured, funny book
- David Coward, Times Literary Supplement
A crime novel in a class of its own, you'll laugh till you cry
- Bertrand Audusse, Le Monde