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Krull House: Penguin Classics

ISBN 
9780241320693
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R295.00
Published 
July 2018
About the book: 
It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough ... or else that you are too foreign
 
Just 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. 
 
Written 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.
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