{"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":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229704802648,"sku":"9780241453414","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241453414.jpg?v=1779508818","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/krull-house","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}