Three Bedrooms in Manhattan

Translated from the French by Marc Romano, Three Bedrooms in Manhattan tells the story of a divorced actor and a lonely woman, both adrift in New York, who meet by chance in an all-night diner. It is the start of something, though neither is sure what. As they move through neon-lit streets, bars, rented rooms, and cheap motels, these two lost souls struggle to understand what it is that has brought them, in spite of themselves, inexorably together.

"Simenon casts his characteristic spell from the opening lines. There is an evanescent, hallucinatory, almost dreamlike quality throughout" —Daily Telegraph

"Three Bedrooms in Manhattan is about how we resist love, how we get dragged into it, spat out, dragged back in against our will" —Los Angeles Times