A Jew Must Die by Jacques Chessex
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. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural market town of butchers and bankers, is more concerned with unemployment than the fate of nations across the border.
Chessex, our new Flaubert, has no equal when describing horror without flinching, screaming sotto voce and exploring guilt in taut proseA" Le Nouvel Observateur A masterpiece. His writing is that of a painter, sober, incisive, bewildering. The beauty of the world, the ubiquity of evil, God's silence, it's all there, delivered like a slap to the face.A" Le Point There are so many books we can do without. But we were waiting for this one. It completes the written universe of a great author and explores a nightmare not as anachronistic as it might appear.A" L'Hebdo
Jacques Chessex, born in 1934, won the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize for his novel L'Ogre. He is considered one of Switzerland's greatest authors, a novelist, poet, essayist and winner of the French Literature Grand Prix of the Acadü¾Ž–”¼mie Franü¾¶”¼aise. W.Donald Wilson is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is a translator of fiction and non-fiction from the French and his work includes titles by Yves Thü¾Ž–”¼riault and Jean Heffer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781904738510 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904738516 |
| Title | A Jew Must Die |
| Author | Jacques Chessex |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Year published | 2010-02-11 |
| Number of pages | 122 |
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