{"product_id":"krull-house","title":"Krull House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Vintage Simenon, a dark masterpiece . . . eerily prophetic'' John Banville, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003ci\u003eIt''s not because you''re foreigners. It''s because you aren''t foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten on the eve of the Second World War, \u003ci\u003eThe Krull House\u003c\/i\u003e is a taut, strangely prophetic novel about how distrust and hostility towards outsiders descends into hate-filled violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Simenon lays out with ruthless exactitude the way selfish, conscience-free greed exploits modest, hospitable decency . . . The world of \u003ci\u003eChez Krull\u003c\/i\u003e is a common, shared one'' Julian Barnes, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57303590437246,"sku":"NW9780241453414","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241453414.jpg?v=1778257971","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/krull-house","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}