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By a Slow River (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for By a Slow RiverA bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, "By a Slow River "is a mesmerizing 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 so...
Full description- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Published: 12 June 2007
- Format: Paperback 208 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781400078011 ISBN 10: 1400078016
- Sales rank: 206,056
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Full description for By a Slow River
A bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, "By a Slow River "is a mesmerizing 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 labor 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.
