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The Vampire Of Ropraz
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Author : Jacques Chessex
language : en
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Release Date : 2009-05-01
The Vampire Of Ropraz written by Jacques Chessex and has been published by Bitter Lemon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-01 with Fiction categories.
A dark rural tale of superstition that ends on the battlefields of the Somme.
Le Vampire De Ropraz
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Author : Jacques Chessex
language : fr
Publisher: LGF/Le Livre de Poche
Release Date : 2008
Le Vampire De Ropraz written by Jacques Chessex and has been published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
En 1903 à Ropraz, dans le Haut-Jorat vaudois, la fille du juge de paix meurt à vingt ans d'une méningite. Un matin, on trouve le cercueil ouvert, le corps de la virginale Rosa profané, les membres en partie dévorés. Stupéfaction des villages alentour, retour des superstitions, hantise du vampirisme. Puis, à Carrouge et à Ferlens, deux autres profanations sont commises. Le nommé Favez, un garçon de ferme, est le coupable idéal. Condamné, emprisonné, soumis à la psychiatrie, on perd sa trace en 1915. A partir d'un fait réel, Jacques Chessex donne le roman de la fascination meurtrière. Qui mieux que lui sait dire la " crasse primitive ", les fantasmes des notables, la mauvaise conscience d'une époque? [4e de couverture]
The Vampire Of Ropraz
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Author : Jacques Chessex
language : en
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Release Date : 2009-04-16
The Vampire Of Ropraz written by Jacques Chessex and has been published by Bitter Lemon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-16 with Fiction categories.
"Silky prose in this harrowing account of crime and punishment."— Kirkus Reviews "Using spare, effective prose, Chessex brilliantly renders both the inhospitable winter landscape of the mountains and the harshness of a society that makes monsters of its victims.'— London Review of Books "A superb novel, hard as a winter in these landscapes of dark forests, where an atmosphere of prejudice and violence envelops the reader."— L'Express "It's beautiful; it's pure, like a blue sky over a black forest. Giono without garlic and olives."— Le Point "Far from just telling us a simple story Chessex has had the intelligence to integrate a dose of poetry, of the aesthetics of sin, and of the metaphysics of the monster."— Lire Jacques Chessex, winner of the prestigious Goncourt prize, takes a true story and weaves it into a lyrical tale of fear and cruelty. 1903, Ropraz, a small village near 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, her left hand cut off, genitals mutilated, and heart carved out. There is horror in the nearby villages: the return of atavistic superstitions and mutual suspicions. Then two more bodies are violated. A suspect must be found. Favez, a stableboy with bloodshot eyes, is arrested and placed in psychiatric care. He escapes, enlists in the Foreign Legion as the First World War begins, and is sent into battle in the trenches of the Somme. Jacques Chessex, born in 1934, won the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize for his novel A Father's Love. He is considered one of Switzerland's greatest living authors. He lives in Ropraz.
Il Vampiro Di Ropraz
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Author : Jacques Chessex
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Il Vampiro Di Ropraz written by Jacques Chessex and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
El Vampiro De Ropraz
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Author : Jacques Chessex
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
El Vampiro De Ropraz written by Jacques Chessex and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
En 1903, en Ropraz, en el Haut-Jorat valdense, la hija del juez de paz muere a los veinte años de una meningitis Una mañana encuentran levantada la tapa del ataúd, profanado el cuerpo de la virginal Rosa y sus miembros parcialmente devorados Horror Resurg
Wampir Z Ropraz
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Author : Jacques Chessex
language : pl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Wampir Z Ropraz written by Jacques Chessex and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Country life categories.
De Vampier Van Ropraz
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Author : Jacques Chessex
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
De Vampier Van Ropraz written by Jacques Chessex and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Als in een gehucht in Zwitserland in 1903 de graven van jonge vrouwen worden geschonden, weet men in het achterlijke, incestueuze dorpje meteen zeker dat er een vampier is.
The Tyrant
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Author : Jacques Chessex
language : en
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Release Date : 2012-04-26
The Tyrant written by Jacques Chessex and has been published by Bitter Lemon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-26 with Fiction categories.
First published in France in 1973, this unbearably sad novel from Swiss author Chessex, the first non-French writer to win the Prix Goncourt, charts a man's slow but steady path toward tragedy.Chessex perfectly captures the juxtaposition of the profound and the banal in a surreal scene where a mortuary representative hawks different models of urns to hold cremated remains. Jean's burden of guilt only grows heavier with time, and the denouement will strike many as pathetically inevitable.' Publishers Weekly A haunting work, reminiscent of Albert Camus, that portrays with exquisite psychological detail the emotional crisis in the life of Jean Calmet, a young Swiss schoolteacher. As we watch the father's cremation in the opening chapter, we sense that, even though his father's body has been reduced to ashes, his spirit survives to haunt Jean. His father's prodigious vitality and virility had crushed his family and ruined his son's childhood. Even after his father's death, Jean cannot be free. The parental ogre's actions continue to suck Jean into a vortex of despair. Jacques Chessex, a giant of Swiss literature, won the Grand Prix de la langue française and was awarded the Grand Prix Jean Giono for his entire work. Bitter Lemon Press published his novels The Vampire of Ropraz and A Jew Must Die to high acclaim. He died in 2009 at age seventy-five.
The Public Prosecutor
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Author : Jef Geeraerts
language : en
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Release Date : 2009-09-01
The Public Prosecutor written by Jef Geeraerts and has been published by Bitter Lemon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Albert Savelkoul, Public Prosecutor of Antwerp has power, money, an aristocratic wife and a high-maintenance mistress. A wonderful life-until Opus Dei takes a less than benevolent interest in it. So starts a harrowing yet humorous tale of blackmail and murder.
Thursday Night Widows
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Author : Claudia Piñeiro
language : en
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Release Date : 2010-01-21
Thursday Night Widows written by Claudia Piñeiro and has been published by Bitter Lemon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-21 with Fiction categories.
"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"— José Saramago, Nobel Prize winner The English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves! "Piñeiro's clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11."— Publishers Weekly "Piñeiro is particularly skilful at exposing the social forces undermining Argentine society, and the fragility of personal relationships. We learn the surprising truth of the three men's death in the final chapter; the build-up to it is riveting."— The Times (London) "Piñeiro builds up tension through banal, domestic details and the accretion of despair in everyday marital and professional struggles. There may be bloody murder at the centre of this novel, but the dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentina's class structure and the willful blindness of its petty bourgeoisie."— Times Literary Supplement "A razor-sharp psychological and social portrait not only of Argentina, but of the afluent Western world as a whole."— Rosa Montero Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty, and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Claudia Piñeiro's novel eerily foreshadowed a criminal case that generated a scandal in the Argentine media. But this is more than a story about crime. The suspense is a byproduct of Piñeiro's hand at crafting a psychological portrait of a professional class that lives beyond its means and leads secret lives of deadly stress and despair. It takes place during the post-9/11 economic meltdown in Argentina, but it is a universal story that will resonate among credit-crunched readers of today. The film of Thursday Night Widows, by Argentine New Wave and award-winning director Marcelo Piñeyro is coming soon with trailers available online. Claudia Piñeiro was a journalist, playwright, and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pléyade Annual Journalism Award. She has more recently turned to fiction and is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into four languages. This novel won the Clarin Prize for fiction and is her first title to be available in English.