The Gravediggers' Bread By Frédéric Dard, Melanie Florence (Translator)

The Gravediggers' Bread By Frédéric Dard, Melanie Florence (Translator)A claustrophobic thriller about love gone wrong, from the French master of noirBlaise should never have hung around in that charmless little provincial town. The job offer that attracted him in the first place had failed to materialize. He should have got on the first train back to Paris, but Fate decided otherwise. After a chance encounter with a beautiful blonde in the town post office, Blaise is hooked. He realizes he'll do anything to stay by her

and witnesses the birth and death of civilizations

In Buddhism

from within and seen by all from without

and the stakes of his rise are bracing

to the more recent history of the Khmer Rouge revolution

elegant style that has won her international acclaim

translated and published in English in 2017

' Vogue'As unusual as it is alluring

and short stories

I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries

He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old

but the very fabric of the past