by Philippe Claudel · tapa dura · ISBN 9783498009304
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«Die grauen Seelen» is the mystery novel by Philippe Claudel, published by Rowohlt Verlag in hardback (240 pages, in German).
In December 1917, the tavern keeper's daughter in a village in eastern France, near the front, is found strangled in a canal. Years later, a man who lived through the investigation reconstructs the events and interweaves his account with that of the prosecutor, the schoolteacher Lysia Verhareine, and a Breton deserter, in a story about guilt and memory.
Original title: «Les âmes grises». Translated from the French by Christiane Seiler. Originally published in 2003; winner of the Prix Renaudot and the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle.
For readers of crime and historical fiction: a sombre atmosphere and psychological suspense set during the First World War.
Philippe Claudel is a French writer and film director.
