Book by Claudel Philippe
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an odd, disturbing novel, haunted by ghosts, the victims of crimes that are long past but ever present. .. a page turning whodunnit with a subtle after taste. (KATE CHISHOLM SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
a masterpiece... a beautifully written and mesmeric study of individual and collective guilt. (DAILY MAIL)
This is ostensibly a detective story, about a crime that is committed in 1917, and solved 20 years later. The location is a small town in Northern France, near V., in the dead of the freezing winter. The war is still being fought in the trenches, within sight and sound of the town, but the men of the town have been spared the slaughter because they are needed in the local factory. One morning a beautiful ten year old girl, one of the three daughters of the innkeeper, is found strangled and dumped in the canal. Suspicion falls on two deserters who are picked up near the town. Their interrogation and sentencing is brutal and swift.
Twenty years later, the narrator, a local policeman, puts together what actually happened. On the night the deserters were arrested and interrogated, he was sitting by the beside of his dying wife. He believes that justice was not done and wants to set the record straight.
But the death of the child was not the only crime committed in the town during those weeks. More than one record has to be set straight.
Beautiful, like a fairy story almost, frozen in time, this novel has an hypnotic quality.
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Librería: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. very clean copy with no damage to describe. 20 years after a crime was committed in a small town in north-east Fran is in the dead of the bitter winter of 1917, the man who investigate the crime begins to look again at the facts of the case, and tries to piece together what he believes that it happened that night a beautiful young girl had died. In the process he uncovered more than one miscarriage of justice. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 184 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Crime Fiction; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0297847791. ISBN/EAN: 9780297847793. Inventory No: 0248905. Nº de ref. del artículo: 0248905
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 2005 Weidenfeld & Nicolson Hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Fine clean tight binding in fine unclipped dustjacket. Nº de ref. del artículo: ABE-1678636030452
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