{"product_id":"mangez-le-si-vous-voulez-book-jean-teule-9782266198462","title":"Mangez-le si vous voulez","description":"'Sticking closely to the known facts, Jean Teul 's novelisation offers no easy explanations for what happened but the transformation from rural idyll to hell on earth is terrifyingly convincing.' \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003eA true story.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTuesday 16 August 1870, Alain de Mon ys, makes his way to the village fair. He plans to buy a heifer for a needy neighbour and find a roofer to repair the roof of the barn of a poor acquaintance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe arrives at two o'clock. Two hours later, the crowd has gone crazy; they have lynched, tortured, burned and eaten him. How could such a horror be possible?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith frightening precision, Jean Teul  reconstructs each step of one of the most shameful stories in the history of nineteenth-century France.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBased on a shamefully brutal incident from French history, Jean Teul 's riveting story shows how easily a group of individuals can turn into an irrational, bloodthirsty mob.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Teul 's milieu is centred on the merriment of vice and cruelty. His novels are bawdy, full of rollicking sex and roiling violence. However, he undercuts this with a graphic humour born of his earlier career as an illustrator.' \u003cem\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/em\u003e 'Exceptionally well written, Eat Him If You Like will have a very special appeal to suspenseful mystery enthusiasts, students of 19th Century French history.' \u003cem\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e 'An engrossing book to be read in one big gulp' \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e 'Teul 's vivid account of ordinary folk inexplicably transformed into monsters resonates long after reading' \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e 'Makes you feel uncomfortable for all the right reasons . a thought provoking novella' \u003cem\u003eSavidge Reads\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49629067739409,"sku":"GOR008340831","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50398083154193,"sku":"CIN2266198467G","price":12.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2266198467.jpg?v=1751435719","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/mangez-le-si-vous-voulez-book-jean-teule-9782266198462","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}