by Sébastien Japrisot · Gallimard Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070372966
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«L'été meurtrier» is the suspense novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Gallimard Education in paperback (448 pages, in French).
Eliane arrives in a village in rural France to avenge her mother, raped after World War II. To get close to the three men she believes responsible, she seduces Pinpon, a young firefighter, and marries him. Amid half-truths and silences, Sébastien Japrisot turns revenge into an unexpected drama.
The novel was originally published in 1977 and won the Prix des Deux-Magots (1978) and the Martin Beck Award (1981). This edition is number 1296 in the Folio collection.
For readers of crime fiction and psychological thrillers, with plots of revenge, family secrets and a rural setting of growing tension.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
