![]() ![]() The sisters of her deceased husband desire the farmhouse for themselves, and have begun charting legal channels to achieve this end. Her trouble-making son Rene is away at war, and her aged and confused father-in-law helps her tend the animals. Tati Couderc is a somewhat portly widow who has inherited a lovely house and plot of land from her husband. Simenon masterfully paints the turmoil of a recently paroled murderer who is searching for his place in a world that refuses to accept him, and contrasts it with the plight of an anxious widow whose family is plotting against her. The prose is beautiful (even in translation), and the lovely descriptions create a picturesque backdrop for despicability the dregs of sin. ![]() The entire work is laced with the troubling desires of emotionally and spiritually deranged characters. The Widow by Georges Simenon was published in 1942 and is an exquisite piece of french noir crime fiction. ![]()
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