Category Archives: Philippe Claudel

Review: Grey Souls (2003), by Philippe Claudel

This post is bilingual, scroll down for the English language version Almas grises. Traducción de José Antonio Soriano Marco, 2005. Título original: Les Âmes grises, 2003 de Philippe Claudel. Ediciones Salamandra, 2010. Colección X Aniversario. 220 páginas. ISBN: 978-84-9838-335-5. Almas … Continue reading

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Currently Reading: Les Âmes grises

Les Âmes grises is a novel by the French author Philippe Claudel. It is a first person narrative which revolves around the murder of a young girl in a small provincial French town near the Western Front in 1917. The … Continue reading

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Last Acquisitions

Blanco nocturno (Nocturnal Target) by Ricardo Piglia, Anagrama 2010. The blurb reads: ‘Tony Duran, born in Puerto Rico, educated as an American in New Jersey, was killed in the early seventies in a village in the province of Buenos Aires. … Continue reading

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>Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

> Thanks to Uriah (aka Norman) at Crime Scraps I just heard that the winner of this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is Brodeck’s Report by Philippe Claudel. For more information you can click here. This was probably one of … Continue reading

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Top 10 crime fiction reads for 2009

This is my contribution to Best Crime Fiction Reads in 2009 sponsored by Kerrie in Mysteries in Paradise. I’ve included only author, English title (Spanish title), and just one book by author. On purpose I’ve left out one of the … Continue reading

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Philippe Claudel – El informe de Brodeck

Este es posiblemente el mejor libro que he leído este año. No tenía más referencias de Philippe Claudel que los nombres de sus tres novelas publicadas en España y hace aproximadamente un año vi Il y a longtemps que je … Continue reading

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