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Title: Belle du Seigneur
Author: Albert Cohen
Original Publish Year: 1968
Original Language: French
Nominator: GenevaBookClub
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Set in Geneva in the 1930s, the narrative revolves around a Mediterranean Jew employed by the League of Nations, and his romance with a married Swiss aristocrat.
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