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The Snow Was Dirty
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope between two trees. He's practising. He practises by the mill, by the blacksmiths; he practises in the forest at night, where the Cold Woman whispers and goblins roam. When he comes out, he will never be the same. Tyll will escape the ordinary villages. In the mines he will defy death. On the battlefield he will run faster than cannonballs. In the courts he will trick the heads of state.
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'A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.' And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage...unable to cover the filth.
Nineteen-year-old Frank - thug, thief, son of a brothel owner - gets by surprisingly well despite living in a city under military occupation, but a warm house and a full stomach are not enough to make him feel truly alive in such a climate of deceit and betrayal.
During a bleak, unending winter, he embarks on a string of violent and sordid crimes that set him on a path from which he can never return. Georges Simenon's matchless novel is a brutal, compelling portrayal of a world without pity; a devastating journey through a psychological no-man's land.
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- Andrew
- 18-02-2020
Surprising intresting
I read many reviews before reading/listening to this book. Let me say that I belive most readers missed the point. Frank is indeed a dirtbag yet to me he is tormented by the existentialism of the age. As he says 'everything is of equal value'. He wishes to be a man yet as he has no father or father figure to look to he does the acts he does to be recognised by those who he looks up to as an equal. As he progresses he finds (as is often the case in life) that those he looks up to are valueless and that the real men are quite different. In the end to me, Frank discovers the true value of life in the glimps of the 'previously despised life'. The value of true manhood and indeed the real purpose of life in the family.
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- J-me
- 30-12-2019
An unnecessary story poorly narrated.
I am familiar with quite a few Simenon stories. I grew up with television adaptations of his famous Maigret. Most of the stories are well narrated. This one, not a Maigret, is a dark, confusing, disjointed story about gratuitous killing during the occupation, presumably in France or Belgium, in WW 2. The narrator has no rhythm and misreads the sentences. His emphasis is often wrong and his accent is too English. Critics raved about this work. But I think they raved because it would have been unfashionable at the time to dismiss this story as a muddled attempt at drama noir.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-10-2020
A story about an evil man doing evil things
Not a good book to read if you don't like to read about psychopaths hurting people.
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- Adam D
- 01-07-2017
A journey into the soul of a psychopath.
The narrator riddles the path with tentative options but these do not lead to salvation. The distant voice prepares the reader for the only possible outcome, the tragic.
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