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The Wide World culture Then Wilhelm Roentgen captured andThe "jubilant and exciting" saga of one prominent French family in postwar Paris, Beirut, and Saigonan electrifying novel of passion, greed, murder, and revenge (Sandrine Bajos, Le Parisien) The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in 1948 Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass on to his eldest son. With no head for management, Jean nearly sinks the company, then marries a materialistic young