The Snow Was Dirty
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- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Seria:
- Penguin Classics
- Tytuł oryginału:
- La Neige était sale (1948)
- Wydawnictwo:
- Penguin Books
- Data wydania:
- 2016-11-03
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2003-08-31
- Liczba stron:
- 304
- Czas czytania
- 5 godz. 4 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9780241258569
- Tłumacz:
- Howard Curtis
A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.
► And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage ... unable to cover the filth. ◄
Nineteen-year-old Frank - thug, thief, son of a brothel owner - gets 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 Simenon's matchless novel is a brutal, compelling portrayal of a world without pity; a devastating journey through a psychological no-man's land.
► Among the best novels of the twentieth century ◄ New Yorker
► An astonishing work ◄ John Banville
► So noir it makes Raymond Chandler look beige ◄ Independent