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Dirty Snow
Dirty Snow | Georges Simenon
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Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mothers whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a petty thief, and, asDirty Snowopens, he has just killed his first man. Through the unrelenting darkness and cold of an endless winter, Frank will pursue abjection until at last there is nowhere to go.Hans Koning has describedDirty Snowas one of the very few novels to come out of German-occupied France that gets it exactly right. In a study of the criminal mind that is comparable to Jim ThompsonsThe Killer Inside Me, Simenon maps a no mans land of the spirit in which human nature is driven to destructionand redemption, perhaps, as wellby forces beyond its control.
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andrew61
Dirty Snow | Georges Simenon
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#readingeurope2020 My 1st trip in this challenge was a quick hop across the channel to read for the 1st time a classic crime author Georges Simenon, not a maigret but a dark picture of a yng man in occupied France. Like raskolnikov, frank friedmaeir is a yng man living in his mother's brothel who commits crimes which eventually he cannot forgive himself for and his subsequent arrest and interview reads like a chess match. On to maigret i think.

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andrew61 @merelybookish thanks, twas a present from daughter ☺ 5y
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sixgun
The Snow Was Dirty | Georges Simenon
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The story was there, I know it was, but I just couldn't get into it. I might try it again when I don't have other books i'd prefer to read in my cue, or I go through a dark, cold, Russianesque time.

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squarepeginroundhole
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I‘ve been on a Georges Simenon kick ever since I read Dirty Snow last month. Not sure how I never heard of him considering all the books he's written (@ 400?!) plus his celebrity writer status while he was alive. I haven't read any of his Maigret series yet, but I'm getting into his Romans Dur's. Six read and seemingly endless to go.

JazzFeathers Oh, l bought Dirty Snow just last month! 7y
Ms_T I read The Blue Room last year and loved it. 7y
squarepeginroundhole @JazzFeathers curious to hear what you think. Its a strange one, but in a good way. 7y
squarepeginroundhole @Ms_T yes! That is my fave so far! 7y
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Hobbinol
Dirty Snow | Georges Simenon
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saresmoore 💙 8y
Lindy Pretty photo. Plus Tove Jansson ❤️ 8y
merelybookish So pretty! 8y
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ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled I started the first chapter of Winter World! It's slow-going but should answer a lot of questions. 🐿 8y
LeahBergen Pretty! I have The Summer Book on my shelf. 😀 8y
Hobbinol @LeahBergen The Jansson book is from my TBR shelf and The Summer Book is on my radar.📡🙂 8y
Hobbinol @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled.com I haven't read it yet (I've been waiting for a long winter-- guess I should have read it before global warming set in, huh?) Hope the pace picks up and you don't have to hibernate before you finish it!😉 8y
Hooked_on_books Love your blue theme! 8y
Hobbinol @Hooked_on_books Thank you so much!💙 8y
Faibka Great picture!💜 Love to find new Simenon books to add to my TBR 😊 8y
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