L'Amante anglaise

A monstrous murder occurs in a small provincial town. The killer is identified: there is a confession and evidence. Unknown only one thing—why? That is what the investigator tries to find out, questioning an outsider, the husband, and the very criminal herself. Just three voices—as three instruments playing the same musical theme. The answers are given, but the questions remain, and it’s not for a police official to answer them—these questions are for each of us. Winner of the Goncourt Prize Marguerite Duras, one of the most renowned French writers of the 20th century, who as no one else knew and loved to tell about love, turns the fact of a criminal chronicle into an engrossing novel about the hidden depths of human consciousness with her subtle psychological realism and unobtrusive lyricism.