by Jean-Claude Izzo · Unionsverlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783293201873
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«Chourmo» is the crime novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, published by Unionsverlag in paperback (268 pages, in German).
Fabio Montale, a former Marseille police officer, tries to lead a quiet life, but his cousin Gélou asks him to find her son, who disappeared with his girlfriend. The search drags him into a Marseille of violence, corruption, and old scores to settle.
Second installment of the Marseille Trilogy, translated from French into German by Katarina Grän and Ronald Voullié. Winner of the Deutscher Krimi Preis 2001 in the international category.
For readers of European crime fiction and Mediterranean noir, a current this work helped found.
Jean-Claude Izzo was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three neo-noir crime novels Total Chaos, Chourmo, and Solea, featuring as protagonist ex-cop Fabio Montale, and set in the author's native city of Marseille. All have been translated into English by Howard Curtis.
