The Last Days of Our Parents

The first novel from "planetary phenomenon" (Babelia) Joël Dicker, "the Swiss author who is reviving bookstores" (El País Semanal), the "irritating literary wunderkind" (The New York Times), winner of the Geneva Writers' Prize.

More than 15,000,000 readers

By the winner of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française, the Prix Lire, the Prix Qué Leer, and the Prix San Clemente.

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In 1940, Winston Churchill has an idea that will change the course of the war: to create a new section of the secret service, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), to carry out sabotage operations from within enemy lines. A few months later, young Paul-Émile leaves Paris for London, hoping to join the Resistance. The SOE soon calls him into its ranks, along with a group of young companions. After brutal training, the chosen few will experience love, fear, and friendship, and will be sent on a mission to occupied France. But German counterintelligence has already been alerted.

A very young Joël Dicker, who would later dazzle more than two million readers with The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, tackles a World War II event that was kept secret for years, and demonstrates, in this novel winner of the Geneva Writers' Prize, his talent for creating an unforgettable story and characters.

Review:
"An engrossing read. Dicker not only shows a deep understanding of the subject but also commits to the characters, becoming lyrical. He powerfully conveys the comforting power of that 'we' that emerges in critical moments of history."
Emmanuel Gehrig, Le Temps

Reviews for The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair:
"It's as if Norman Mailer had been accused of murder and Truman Capote had collaborated to tell it all... But I suspect Dicker is more fun."
Chelsea Cain, The New York Times

"We are facing the great thriller everyone had been waiting for since Larsson's Millennium, facing a Napoleonic voice, that doesn't write, it boxes... A novel that is not a novel, it's a battle. Like every great book worthy of the name."
Laura Fernández, El Cultural of El Mundo

"The Dicker phenomenon arrives... The successor to Stieg Larsson and E.L. James... Entertainment in its purest form... Terribly addictive."
Antonio Lozano, La Vanguardia

"If you stick your nose into this great novel, you are lost: you will have to follow it to the end. You will feel manipulated, disoriented, astonished, irritated, and passionate about a story with many surprises and false leads."
Bernard Pivot (of the Académie Goncourt), Le Journal du dimanche