The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By Matthieu Simard, Pablo Strauss (translator),

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Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. They decide to flee the city for an idyllic village, where things, they tell themselves, must be better. But their new home is gloomy, threatening, tinged with tragedy - things have not been the same since the factory closed down and…


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Despite its relative brevity, this is a remarkable read that lives long in the memory. It’s extraordinarily atmospheric and has, at the same time, both a fragile beauty and a relentless bleakness. Switching between Simon and Marie’s individual perspectives, and also between present day and flashbacks, the story feels almost dystopian in its description of two desperate people who’ve relocated to an equally broken, run down place. But the dystopia here really lies in the shattered lives of the main characters.

The writing is superb. So disarmingly powerful that despite revealing the ending within the first couple of pages, Simard’s…

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