The 7th Function of Language (UK Signed & Numbered Copy)

Laurent Binet

ISBN 10: 1910701580 / ISBN 13: 9781910701584

Published by Harvill Secker, London, 2017

About this Item

First Printing. The Book is very fine, square, tight and unread. It is unmarked, with clean pages free of inscriptions or marks. It is numbered 86 of 250 copies and has been signed by the author directly on to the tipped-in limitation page. The leading edge of the page block has a red '7'. The Dust Jacket is very fine, unfaded, unclipped (£16.99) and is free of rips, tears or marks. First Edition, First Printing - Signed by the Author. All our books are covered with a clear, removable, chemically inert, protective wrapper before being securely bubble wrapped and dispatched in strong corrugated cardboard boxes.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The 7th Function of Language (UK Signed & Numbered Copy)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker, London
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910701580
• ISBN 13: 9781910701584
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

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?

About the Author

Laurent Binet was born in Paris, France, in 1972. His first novel, HHhH, was named one of the fifty best books of 2015 by The New York Times and received the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. He is a professor at the University of Paris III, where he lectures on French literature.

Sam Taylor has written for The Guardian, the Financial Times, Vogue, and Esquire, and has translated such works as the award-winning HHhH by Laurent Binet and the internationally bestselling The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affairby Joël Dicker.