Description
| Product ID: | 9780857059949 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Grey Souls |
| Authors: | Author: Philippe Claudel, Hoyt Rogers |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A mesmerising and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. A bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, Grey Souls is a mesmerising and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. The placid daily life of a small town near the front seems impervious to the nearby pounding of artillery fire and the parade of wounded strangers passing through its streets. But the illusion of calm is soon shattered by the deaths of three innocents - the charming new schoolmistress who captures every male heart only to kill herself; an angelic ten-year-old girl who is found strangled; and a local policeman''s cherished wife, who dies alone in labour while her husband is hunting the murderer. Twenty years later, the policeman still struggles to make sense of these tragedies, a struggle that both torments and sustains him. But excavating the town''s secret history will bring neither peace to him nor justice to the wicked. |
| Imprint Name: | MacLehose Press |
| Publisher Name: | Quercus Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-05-07 |
