Description
| Product ID: | 9780241453414 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Krull House |
| Authors: | Author: Georges Simenon, Howard Curtis |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic crime and mystery fiction, Fiction in translation, Classic crime, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating '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 ''Vintage Simenon, a dark masterpiece . . . eerily prophetic'' John Banville, Guardian |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-01 |
