Winner of France's most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt.A haunting work, reminiscent of Albert Camus, that portrays with exquisite psychological detail the emotional crisis in the life o
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 with an iron bar. Europe is in flame
1903, Ropraz, a small village in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. On a howling December day, a lone walker discovers a recently opened tomb, the body of a young woman violated, left hand cut off, g