{"product_id":"the-krull-house-georges-simenon-9780241453414","title":"The Krull House","description":"'Vintage Simenon, a dark masterpiece . . . eerily prophetic' John Banville, Guardian\n'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign'\nJust as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived there for decades, they rely on trade with passing sailors to earn a living. When their relative arrives unannounced from Germany, with his unsettling, nonchalant ways, the family becomes the target of increasing suspicion and the scapegoat for a terrible crime. \nWritten on the eve of the Second World War, The Krull House is a taut, strangely prophetic novel about how distrust and hostility towards outsiders descends into hate-filled violence.\n'Simenon lays out with ruthless exactitude the way selfish, conscience-free greed exploits modest, hospitable decency . . . The world of Chez Krull is a common, shared one' Julian Barnes, London Review of Books","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50490591641888,"sku":"9780241453414","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780241453414.jpg?v=1768438635","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-krull-house-georges-simenon-9780241453414","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}