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A Jew must die
Un Juif pour l'exemple
by Jacques Chessex
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
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A novel based on a true story...
On April 16, 1942, a few days before Hitler’s birthday, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a
Jewish cattle merchant, into a stable and kill him with an iron bar. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland,
and Payerne, a rural market town of butchers and bankers, is more concerned with unemployment and local
bankruptcies than the fate of nations across the border. Fernand Ischi, leader of the local Nazi cell, blames
everything on the Jews and Bloch’s murder is to be an example, a foretaste of what is to come once the Nazis
take over Switzerland. |
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First English Language Edition
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Grasset
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Bitter Lemon Press
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2010
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Number of Pages :
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104
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6.99 £
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ISBN :
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978-1-904738-510
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| The story is violent, pacy and saturated with black humour.
Imagine the Soprano family arriving in France, or perhaps better,
Ray Liotta, the snitch from ‘Goodfellas’ settling down with his
family in a small town in Normandy. |
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Badfellas
Malavita
by Tonino Benacquista
Translated by Emily Read
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First English Language Edition
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Gallimard
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British Publisher :
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Bitter Lemon Press
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2010
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Number of Pages :
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283
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8.99 £
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978-1-904738-435
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Affairs of State
Nos fantastiques années fric
by Dominique Manotti
Translated by Amanda Hopkinson & Ros Schwartz .
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Dominique Manotti is back on form with a tale of intrigue and corruption. A call-girl whose black book lists her elite international client is found murdered in an underground garage; a plane bound for Iran laden with illegal arms disappears from the skies over Turkey, and the president’s closest advisor Bornard, head of a controversial Elysée security unit, manipulates the system with consummate ease – and illegality. Until the day when rookie investigator Noria Ghozali determines to untangle the threads which bind these events together. In doing so she penetrates the Elysée’s innermost system, confronts the workings of money and corruption within government, and in the process is forced to combat the institutional – and overt – racism which repeatedly stalls her. |
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First English Language Edition
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Arcadia
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2009
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Number of Pages :
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204
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8.99 £
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ISBN :
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978-1906413491
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| "A book you read in a single sitting" (Le Magazine Littéraire), here is a "story worthy of Hitchcock" (Paris Vogue), from one of the most promising French novelists to emerge since Michel Houellebecq. Bestselling French wunderkind Tanguy Viel, heir to the legacy of Georges Simenon, has created his own literary genre in the noir tradition: thrillers with Proustian attention to detail and Freudian insights into his characters.
A master of style and suspense, Viel explores moral dilemmas in poetic language rarely found in a crime novel. Called "a marvel of grace and precision" by the French press, Beyond Suspicion is a story of marriage, murder, and double-crosses.
Set in the south of France where the stakes are high and no one is beyond suspicion, this Hitchcockian tale presents siblings and lovers in constantly shifting configurations. The grace and precision of Viel's language are eloquently captured by prizewinning translator Linda Coverdale's lyrical prose.
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Beyond Suspicion
Insoupçonnable
by Tanguy Viel
Translated by Linda Coverdale
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First English Language Edition
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Editions de Minuit
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The New Press
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2009
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Number of Pages :
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176
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19.95 $
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1595581561
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The Messengers of Death
A Mystery in Provence
Les Courriers de la mort
by Pierre Magnan
Translated by Patricia Clancy
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Secrets and lies lead to shockingly violent murder in a small French town.An intimately omniscient narrator introduces the village of Barles in the hilly region of Upper Provence, as well as its eerie cemetery and, finally, an ordinary postbox, the starting point of the mystery. Former postman Emile Pencenat is industriously digging his own grave when he spots an unposted letter and helpfully deposits it in said box. The recipient of the letter is the solitary Veronique, settling into spinsterhood in the family home, the piano her constant companion. Her flouncy friend Ambroisine visits unexpectedly and tells a chilling and rather implausible tale of a man who walks her attic at night, terrifying her. Shortly after, Veronique is attacked and killed with a bayonet by a man incongruously dressed as a sapeur (sapper). The bloody murder sends waves of fear through the small community and draws out of retirement inquisitive Commissaire Laviolette, a veteran investigator who lives nearby. He shares his droll observations with another elderly amateur sleuth, Judge Chabrand. Their probing digs up more than truffles (the region's prized delicacy) in a story full of twists in a town full of outre characters.A pleasantly old-fashioned mystery thriller with quirky charm aplenty. Magnan (Death in the Truffle Wood, 2007, etc.) fashions an intricate landscape of life in a French village while weaving menace and suspense into his tapestry. |
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First English Language Edition
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French Publisher :
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Gallimard Jeunesse
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American Publisher :
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St. Martin's Minotaur
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2008
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Number of Pages :
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320
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Price :
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18.21 $
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ISBN :
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978-0312387563
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