Chourmo
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The second novel in Izzo’s acclaimed
Marseilles trilogy is a touching tribute to the
author’s beloved city, in all its colour and
complexity. Fabio Montale is an unwitting
hero in this city of melancholy beauty.
Fabio Montale has left a police force marred
by corruption, xenophobia, and greed. But
getting out is not going to be so easy. When
his cousin’s son goes missing, Montale is
dragged back onto the mean streets of a
violent, crime-infested Marseilles. To discover
the truth about the boy’s disappearance,
he infiltrates a dangerous underworld of
mobsters, religious fanatics, crooked cops,
and ordinary people whom desperation has
driven to extremes.
Jean-Claude Izzo was born in Marseilles, France, in 1945. Best known for the Marseilles trilogy (Total Chaos, Chourmo, Solea), Izzo is also the author of The Lost Sailors, A Sun for the Dying, Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil, and one collection of short stories, Living Tires. He died in 2000 at the age of fifty-five. Award-winning translator Howard Curtis has worked on more than sixty books from French, Italian and Spanish. Among his recent translations for Europa are works by Jean-Claude Izzo and Santiago Gamboa.