The Vampire of Ropraz by Jacques Chessex

"Silky prose in this harrowing account of crime and punishment."— Kirkus Reviews

"Using spare, effective prose, Chessex brilliantly renders both the inhospitable winter landscape of the mountains and the harshness of a society that makes monsters of its victims.'— London Review of Books

"A superb novel, hard as a winter in these landscapes of dark forests, where an atmosphere of prejudice and violence envelops the reader."— L'Express

"It's beautiful; it's pure, like a blue sky over a black forest. Giono without garlic and olives."— Le Point

"Far from just telling us a simple story Chessex has had the intelligence to integrate a dose of poetry, of the aesthetics of sin, and of the metaphysics of the monster."— Lire

Jacques Chessex, winner of the prestigious Goncourt prize, takes a true story and weaves it into a lyrical tale of fear and cruelty.

1903, Ropraz, a...