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In dirty snow i cant really understand why things happen the way they do. Dirty snow is darker than noir, devoid of any light or optimism. He commits increasingly depraved acts, determined to prove that hes an emotionless killer who doesnt give a shit about anything. When he wrote the snow was dirty, simenon was in exile in the us after being accused of collaborating with the nazi regime in france for allowing them to make films of his novels he was later. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws.
The snow was dirty audiobook by georges simenon, howard. Georges simenon is a recent discovery for me not the maigret books, but what simenon called his romans durs, such as dirty snow and three bedrooms in manhattan and hard they are indeed. In the hands of simenon it is an absorbing entertaining seems an inapt word look at the darker side of life. Dirty snow is not a maigret money maker, not a commercial novel, but one of simenon s literary works.
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