The Snow Was Dirty

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”Feels incredibly modern… it is brutal, frank about sex and violence, and will make your flesh creep” Ian Rankin

A brilliant new translation of Simenon”s critically acclaimed masterpiece.

”And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage … unable to cover the filth.”

Nineteen-year-old Frank – thug, thief, son of a brothel owner – gets by surprisingly well despite living in a city under military occupation, but a warm house and a full stomach are not enough to make him feel truly alive in such a climate of deceit and betrayal. During a bleak, unending winter, he embarks on a string of violent and sordid crimes that set him on a path from which he can never return. Georges Simenon”s matchless novel is a brutal, compelling portrayal of a world without pity; a devastating journey through a psychological no-man”s land.

”Among the best novels of the twentieth century” New Yorker

”An astonishing work” John Banville

”So noir it makes Raymond Chandler look beige” Independent