The Krull House

\'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 Σελίδες: 208, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm