Krull House (eBook)

Georges Simenon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
208 Seiten
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-198677-7 (ISBN)

Infos

'Vintage Simenon, a dark masterpiece . . . eerily prophetic' John Banville, Guardian'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign'Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived there for decades, they rely on trade with passing sailors to earn a living. When their relative arrives unannounced from Germany, with his unsettling, nonchalant ways, the family becomes the target of increasing suspicion and the scapegoat for a terrible crime. Written on the eve of the Second World War, The Krull House is a taut, strangely prophetic novel about how distrust and hostility towards outsiders descends into hate-filled violence.'Simenon lays out with ruthless exactitude the way selfish, conscience-free greed exploits modest, hospitable decency . . . The world of Chez Krull is a common, shared one' Julian Barnes, London Review of Books

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2018
• Übersetzer: HOWARD CURTIS
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
• ISBN-10: 0-14-198677-8 / 0141986778
• ISBN-13: 978-0-14-198677-7 / 9780141986777