Grey Souls by Philippe Claudel

Grey Souls by Philippe Claudel

A bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, Grey Souls is a mesmerising and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. The placid daily life of a small town near the front seems impervious to the nearby pounding of artillery fire and the parade of wounded strangers passing through its streets. But the illusion of calm is soon shattered by the deaths of three innocents - the charming new schoolmistress who captures every male heart only to kill herself; an angelic ten-year-old girl who is found strangled; and a local policeman's cherished wife, who dies alone in labour while her husband is hunting the murderer. Twenty years later, the policeman still struggles to make sense of these tragedies, a struggle that both torments and sustains him. But excavating the town's secret history will bring neither peace to him nor justice to the wicked.

'A masterpiece.. a beautifully written and mesmeric study of individual and collective guilt' Daily Mail. * Daily Mail *
'Overwhelming ... the language is magnificent, each word resonates, each sentence paints a picture' Le Parisien. * Le Parisien *
'An odd, disturbing novel, haunted by ghosts, the victims of crimes that are long past but ever present ... a page-turning whodunnit with a subtle aftertaste' Kate Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph *

Philippe Claudel was born in 1962. He has won several awards for his fiction, including the Prix Goncourt for Stories in 2003.

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ISBN 13	9780857059949
ISBN 10	0857059947
Title	Grey Souls
Author	Philippe Claudel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quercus Publishing
Year published	2015-05-07
Number of pages	208
Prizes	Winner of Prix Renaudot 2003, Short-listed for Prix Femina 2003, Short-listed for Prix Goncourt 2003
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