Truth
Emile Zola
(Author)
Description
In a quiet rural village in late 19th-century France, an eleven-year-old boy is found dead in his room, sexually molested and strangled by an unknown assailant. The shocked townsfolk erupt in outrage: Who could have committed this horrible crime? Rumors immediately begin to fly and suspicions shift from one person to another as ignorant conjecture begins to feed on itself. This powerful last novel by Emile Zola about the scape-goating of a Jewish schoolteacher is a chilling depiction of anti-Semitism fully embedded in European society and an eerie presentiment of the Holocaust that would sweep across the Continent only forty years later. But this is not the whole story, for Zola also brilliantly demonstrates how truth, though suppressed for a generation, slowly but inexorably comes to light through the dedication and perseverance of a few humble defenders, who remain unswerving in their demand for justice.
Product Details
Price
$94.90
Publisher
Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh
Publish Date
December 04, 2017
Pages
526
Dimensions
6.0 X 1.31 X 9.0 inches | 2.07 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9783732617951
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Emile Zola (1840-1902) is best known for his series of novels telling the history of the Rougon-Macquart family. 'Nana' (1880) and 'Germinal' (1885) are among the most powerful of the novels.