Truth (V?rit?) by ?mile Zola; tr. by Ernest A. Vizetelly Zola, Emile, 1840-1902

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Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
Subjects
Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.; France. Armée de terre; Soldiers - France - Biography.
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"In a quiet rural village in late-nineteenth-century France, an eleven-year-old boy is found dead in his room, sexually molested and strangled by an unknown assailant. The shocked townsfolk erupt in outrage: Who could have committed this horrible crime? Rumors immediately begin to fly and suspicion shifts from one person to another as conjecture begins to feed on itself." "At first a vagrant is suspected; he could have come in through the open window while passing through the town at night. But in a matter of days another story begins to circulate: the culprit must be Simon, the Jewish schoolmaster, and the murdered boy's uncle and guardian. Did he not resent the fact that the boy was a product of a mixed marriage? As a Jew in the midst of a predominately Christian community, Simon is vulnerable."--BOOK JACKET.
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1066577

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