Babette, a young journalist, has investigated the Mafia only to see her lover, a Roman lawyer, hideously murdered.

ECONOMIST: French fiction

Babette Clarke was 11 when she headed to the shelter in 1943.

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His survivors include his wife, Babette, and five children.

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Ruminating about his failed affairs, he lives alone in Marseilles, comforted by a few ill-sorted friends, who are nastily stalked by a mobster baddie eager to locate Babette (and surprisingly ignorant when it comes to disk-copying).

ECONOMIST: French fiction