A review by rebjam
By a Slow River by Philippe Claudel, Hoyt Rogers
4.0
My second Claudel book. I read Broderick earlier this year and was easily captured by Claudel's slow prose and meditations of life in a small French Village after World War II.
This is the same type of setting (though I picture the village of Beune near Dijon with a factory and canal) at the onset of World War I. A young girl if murdered, the beautiful school teacher commits suicide and a local policeman wonders why as he stumbles through the grief of loosing his beloved wife after the birth of their child.
This is the same type of setting (though I picture the village of Beune near Dijon with a factory and canal) at the onset of World War I. A young girl if murdered, the beautiful school teacher commits suicide and a local policeman wonders why as he stumbles through the grief of loosing his beloved wife after the birth of their child.