The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaetan Soucy

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. This 2002 Flamingo Paperback is in good condition.

ISBN: 9780007131457 SKU: 1452453 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1452453
Location: Fiction