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Franz-Olivier Giesbert

Author of Himmler's Cook

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Works by Franz-Olivier Giesbert

Himmler's Cook (2013) 94 copies
L'immortel (2007) 26 copies
Le vieil homme et la mort (1996) 25 copies
La Souille (1995) 21 copies
L'Américain (2004) 20 copies
L'affreux (1992) 20 copies
Le sieur Dieu (1998) 19 copies
Un très grand amour (2010) 18 copies
Le Président (1990) 16 copies
L'arracheuse de dents (2016) 11 copies
Belle d’amour (2017) 10 copies
Jacques Chirac (1987) — Author — 10 copies
Mort d'un berger (2002) 8 copies
Le schmock (2019) 7 copies
La fin d'une époque (1993) 6 copies
Le lessiveur (2009) 5 copies
Dieu, ma mère et moi (2012) 5 copies
Chirac, une vie (2016) 5 copies
Dernier été (2020) 4 copies
Un animal es una persona (2016) 3 copies
Une journée avec (2016) 2 copies
L'Abatteur (2003) 2 copies
Diptyque marseillais (2012) 1 copy
Monsieur Adrien: roman (1982) 1 copy
Temizlikci (2011) 1 copy

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Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe (1978) — Contributor — 74 copies
Camp Beauregard (2018) — Preface, some editions — 1 copy

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Just to note... I did not finish reading this book, started but after 100 pages I was realistic, I will not finish... Maybe is because I read quite recently [b:The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared|13486632|The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared|Jonas Jonasson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1334848488s/13486632.jpg|10365993]and this book is quite similar, maybe is because the story did not had the grip, but for the first time in my life I can't make myself to like a book and I just leave it. I don't think I will take it again, there are so many great books that are claiming to be read!!! This is not one of those for me....… (more)
 
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CaroPi | 6 other reviews | Aug 9, 2018 |
He aquí la hilarante epopeya de Rose, una cocinera que nunca le ha temido a nada y que ha sobrevivido a las barbaries del siglo xx: el genocidio armenio, los horrores del nazismo y los delirios del maoísmo, sin perder el humor, el deseo de sexo y el afán de venganza: los tres pilares de la felicidad en su particular credo.

A los ciento cinco años aún regenta su famoso restaurante en Marsella, guarda una pistola en el bolso y no puede evitar los pensamientos eróticos cuando se cruza con algún tipo interesante. Esta singular cocinera, marcada por dos hombres y un siglo, se toma la justicia por su mano matando a sus enemigos suavemente. Rose pertenece ya a esa galería de grandes personajes literarios de los que no podemos separarnos.… (more)
 
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BibliotecaLardero | 6 other reviews | May 16, 2014 |
Un affrontement entre truands marseillais.
 
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kanichat | 2 other reviews | Mar 27, 2009 |

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