The Krull House

George Simenon

£8.99

Paperback

Crime & thriller > Fiction

ISBN: 9780241453414

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‘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

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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm