The Snow Was Dirty

A brutal analysis of a wartime collaborator’s moral vacuity. There’s a cold, ruthless beauty to Simenon’s writing. * Spectator *
Feels incredibly modern… it is brutal, frank about sex and violence, and will make your flesh creep. – Ian Rankin
A masterpiece, completely brilliant … so nihilistic and so completely barren … but it is saved from being comically French by the vigour with which the story is told and the great knowingness of the author’s voice. – India Knight
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century … Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories * Guardian *
Fierce, bleak and compellingly written … with pitiless landscapes of hopeless longing, random cruelty and galloping fate warmed only by the twilit lyricism of doomed desire. These are novels of eye-opening, spine-tingling control and intensity. – Boyd Tonkin * The Independent *
A supreme writer … unforgettable vividness * Independent *

Georges Simenon (Author) Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

Howard Curtis (Translator) Howard Curtis has translated more than a hundred books, mostly fiction, from French, Italian and Spanish for publishers in the UK and the USA, including over twenty novels in the Penguin Simenon series. He has won several major awards and has also taught translation.

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