The Pork Butcher

Harmondsworth, England: King Penguin, 1985. Paperback. Winner of the W. H. Smith Literary Award. Ernest Kestner, a pork butcher in Lubeck, is driving back to the small French village where he spent the summer of 1944. Lascaud-sur-Marn, its gaping houses and shops overgrown with roses, remains a memorial to the men, women and children who were rounded up and massacred there by German soldiers. In kestner's memories of that afternoon atrocity, and in his voluptuous memories of Jannie, the French girl who spoke no German, the sun shines interminably as in photographs. he has spent the last forty years, at the rate of forty cigarettes a day, keeping his secret. But now, in view of the state of his lungs, there is no need for secrecy any more....157 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Penguin Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.