The Krull House
$32.22
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2020
Summary
A taut, prophetic novel about how distrust and hostility towards outsiders can descend into hate-filled violence.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241453414 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241453410 |
| Author: | Georges Simenon, Howard Curtis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Vintage Simenon, a dark masterpiece … A calmly, almost diffidently narrated yet terrifying study of race hatred and mass hysteria, it was eerily prophetic * Guardian *
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 … the world of the immigrant, of navigating cautiously in a foreign country * London Review of Books *
Fierce, bleak and compellingly written … with pitiless landscapes of hopeless longing, random cruelty and galloping fate warmed only by the twilit lyricism of doomed desire. These are novels of eye-opening, spine-tingling control and intensity. * The Independent *
Seriously good * Evening Standard *
About The Author
Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
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