THE 7TH FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED & NUMBERED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING WITH THE NUMBER 7 PRINTED ON THE PAGE EDGE

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ISBN 10: 1910701580 / ISBN 13: 9781910701584

Edité par Harvill Secker, London, 2017

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Signed & Numbered by Laurent Binet to the Limitation Page. The Book has been Numbered to a Special Limitation Page and this is one out of a Limited Edition of 250 Copies. The Book & Dust Jacket are in As New condition. This book is guaranteed to be a 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Publishers number sequence 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 confirms that this is a first printing. The Jacket is protected by archival protective covering. The book is professionally wrapped and packed with great care with bubble wrap and placed in a special book box to ensure that the book arrives at your destination in perfect condition.

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• Titre: THE 7TH FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED & NUMBERED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING WITH THE NUMBER 7 PRINTED ON THE PAGE EDGE
• Éditeur: Harvill Secker, London
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1910701580
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781910701584
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Historical Fiction
  • Exclusive, Limited Or Slipcased Editions
  • Crime Fiction

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Synopsis

'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you’ll read this year' - Observer

‘The most outrageously entertaining novel of the year… A joy’ - Philip Hensher

Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.

But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language – an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything.

Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight rendezvous. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society.

In the world of intellectuals and politicians, everyone is a suspect. Who can you trust when the idea of truth itself is at stake?

À propos de l?auteur

Laurent Binet lives and works in France.


His first novel, HHhH, was an international bestseller which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt du premier roman, among other prizes.


The 7th Function of Language won the Prix de la FNAC and Prix Interallié. Civilisations is a bestseller that has won the Grand Prix de l'Académie française.