Simenon, Georges
The Krull House (Penguin Modern Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241453414
- author:
- Simenon, Georges
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.2 centimeters (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Classics, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
The Krull House is a dark and unsettling novel by Georges Simenon, published in 2020. Written on the eve of the Second World War, it explores how distrust and hostility towards outsiders can descend into hate-filled violence.
The story revolves around a family who occupy a marginal place in the life of a rural French town, relying on trade with passing sailors to earn a living. When a relative arrives unannounced from Germany, the family becomes the target of increasing suspicion and the scapegoat for a terrible crime.
Simenon's taut and strangely prophetic novel lays bare the way selfish, conscience-free greed exploits modest, hospitable decency, revealing a world where hostility towards outsiders is all too common.
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