The Ogre (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

An international bestseller and winner of the Priz Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize, THE OGRE is an extraordinary tale of innocence, perversion and obsession. Interweaving history, myth, humour and tragedy, THE OGRE follows the life of an extraordinary Frenchman who becomes a prisoner of war in second-world-war Germany until he manages to ingratiate himself with the Nazis, and becomes a hunting warden for Goring. Fascinating, bizarre and often grotesque, the book is provocative and packed full of philosophical conjecture.