The Snow Was Dirty (Penguin Classics)

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A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction with passion as with reason John Le CarrIn this brilliant new translation of Georges Simenons classic novel a young man descends into a brutal world of crimeAnd always the dirty snow the heaps of snow that look rotten with black patches and embedded garbage unable to cover the filthNineteenyearold Frankthug thief son of a brothel ownergets by surprisingly well despite living in a city under military occupation but a warm house and a full stomach are not enough to make him feel truly alive in such a climate of deceit and betrayal During a bleak unending winter he embarks on a string of violent and sordid crimes that set him on a path from which he can never return Georges Simenons matchless novel is a brutal compelling portrayal of a world without pity a devastating journey through a psychological no mans land