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| Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Suspense fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gaétan Soucy |
| ISBN: | 1559705884 9781559705882 1611452635 9781611452631 |
| OCLC Number: | 46685359 |
| Description: | 138 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes. |
| Responsibility: | Gaétan Soucy ; translated from the French by Sheila Fischman. |
Abstract:
Alone with their authoritarian father on a vast estate where time has stopped, two siblings speak a language and inhabit a surreal universe of their own making, shaped by their reading of philosophy and tales of chivalry. When their father dies and the children set out to bury him, they encounter the inhabitants of the neighboring village, and the pair's cloak of romance and superstition falls away to reveal the appalling truth of their existence. A brilliant, masterful story in which nothing is as it first seems, "The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches" is a triumph of suspense, linguistic invention, and playfulness that peers into the heart of guilt, cruelty, and violence.
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