The unnamed narrator is staying at a small guest-house in the French Riviera and gets on well with the other guests of various nationalities. However, one day, a French lady, Madame Henriette, staying there, elopes with a man she had (presumably) known only for a couple of days. She leaves behind a distraught husband and … Continue reading #ClassicsClub: Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig (1927)
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#GermanLitMonth: Three Crime Novels
The German Literature month has given me a wonderful opportunity to read three authors who had long been on my wishlist. Splinter by Sebastian Fitzek (2009) 'Back to the default position?' said Marc. 'A total reset?' Marc Lucas is a psychiatrist who has enough problems of his own. A few months prior to the beginning … Continue reading #GermanLitMonth: Three Crime Novels
Death of a Family: Andrea Maria Schenkel’s The Murder Farm
In a remote farmhouse, six people have been brutally murdered, two of them kids ( one of them barely out of the crib) and one a maid who had but joined the house-hold. The village community is shocked. Who could have been the devil to murder defenceless people thus? Andrea Maria Schenkel's award-winning debut novel, … Continue reading Death of a Family: Andrea Maria Schenkel’s The Murder Farm
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