(Hardback)

On April 16, 1942, a few days before Hitler's birthday, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into a stable and kill him. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural market town of butchers and bankers, is more concerned with unemployment than the fate of nations across the border.

(Paperback)

Winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's mosdt prestigious literary award.The destruction of a young teacher's life at the hands of his tyrannical father.