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The Counterfeiters

`It`s only after our death that we shall really be able to hear`. The measured tone of hopeless nihilism that pervades “The Counterfeiters” quickly shatters any image of Andre Gide as the querulous and impious Buddha to a quarter-century of intellectuals. In sharp and brilliant prose a seedy, cynical and gratuitously alarming narrative is developed, involving a wide range of otherwise harmless and mainly middle-to-upper-class Parisians. But the setting could be anywhere. From puberty through adolescence to death, “The Counterfeiters” is a rare encyclopedia of human disorder, weakness and despair.