# The Krull House

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- Book: [The Krull House](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon/the-krull-house) ([The Krull House.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon/the-krull-house.md))
- Authors: [Georges Simenon](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4145-341-4
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2020-10-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough ... or else that you are too foreign Just 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. Written on the eve of the Second World War, The Krull House is a taut, strangely prophetic novel about how distrust and hostility towards outsiders descends into hate-filled violence. 'Irresistible... read him at your peril, avoid him at your loss' Sunday Times