Crawl Space Crawl Space

Crawl Space

A Novel

    • $11.99
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

A war criminal returns to the scene of the crime

It's 1999 and Emile Poulquet awaits sentencing in a Paris court for deporting thousands to almost certain death during World War II. But haunted by ghosts from his past, and determined to confront his dark legacy, he escapes and heads toward his beloved Finier, a rural town in the south of France where he once served as prefect. His return will have explosive consequences.

In Finier, Poulquet finds shelter within the strange embrace of a group of teenage wastrels, and encounters new breeds of idealism, degeneracy, and friendship. He sets out to find Arianne-a lifelong obsession and the widow of a Resistance hero-in order to hand her his last will and testament. But as he begins his quest, he cannot help being drawn, inexorably, toward another circle of refugees and reporters in town for a wartime reunion. He doesn't yet know that his worst betrayal-and the greatest test of his own ability to pardon another-is yet to come.

By turns epic and intimate, reflective and slyly humorous, Crawl Space limns the gray zone between past and future. Edie Meidav poignantly describes one man's tragic attempt to come to terms with the past.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2006
June 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
1.2
MB

More Books Like This

Havisham Havisham
2013
Seven for a Secret Seven for a Secret
2013
The Third Claw of God The Third Claw of God
2022
A Glass Rope A Glass Rope
2013
After Dinner Conversation After Dinner Conversation
2020
Justice Justice
2017

More Books by Edie Meidav

Lola, California Lola, California
2011
Another Love Discourse Another Love Discourse
2022
Strange Attractors Strange Attractors
2019