
Grey Souls
Philippe Claudel(Author)
MacLehose Press
Published on 7. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-85705-994-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'A masterpiece ... a beautifully written and mesmeric study of individual and collective guilt' Daily Mail. * Daily Mail * 'Overwhelming ... the language is magnificent, each word resonates, each sentence paints a picture' Le Parisien. * Le Parisien * '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 aftertaste' Kate Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quercus Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
154 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85705-994-9 (9780857059949)
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Philippe Claudel was born in 1962. He has won several awards for his fiction, including the Prix Goncourt for Stories in 2003.