The Krull House
Author(s): Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
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 Houseis a taut, strangely prophetic novel about how distrust and hostility towards outsiders descends into hate-filled violence.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.242
- : 15 June 2018
- : 1.6 Centimeters X 13.7 Centimeters X 21.4 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 208