The Collaborators

Inbunden bok. Harper Collins. 2005. 482 sidor.

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When Janine Simonian was dragged roughly from her cell to face trial as a collaborator in the days of reckoning that followed the liberation of France, she refused to conceal her shaven skull from the jeering crowds that greeted her. Before the jury of former Resistance members pledged to extract vengeance on all who had connived in Nazi rule, Janine stood proudly in court - and pleaded guilty to the charges.

Why did so many French men and women collaborate with the Nazi occupation forces whilst others gave their lives in resistance? Were the motives of those who betrayed their country always selfish - and those of the Resistance always noble?

The Collaborators is a superb novel of conscience and betrayal that portrays the human dilemmas brought about by the Nazi occupation of France, and asks uncomfortable questions about the priorities of personal and national loyalty in time of war. [Engelsk text].

"The fertility of Hill's imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight." (Val McDermid).

"Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining." (Ian Rankin).

"Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace." (Donna Leon).


AV REGINALD HILL

SERIEN OM ANDREW DALZIEL OCH PETER PASCOE: 1. För gammal vänskaps skull (I minnenas tecken) / 2. En dans på rosor / 3. Under jorden / 4. Mysteriespel / 5. Återkallad till livet / 6. Bländverk / 7. Det mörka arvet / 8. Dalen som dränktes / 9. De dödas samtal / 10. Dödens bok / 11. Godmorgon midnatt / 12. Dalziels död / 13. Döden löser alla problem / 14. Dödsmässa.

NOVELLSAMLINGAR: Tända ljus.

FRISTÅENDE: Farliga kunskaper / I de lugnaste vatten (Patrick Ruell) / Främlingars hus / Hämnden.


PÅ ORIGINALSPRÅK

DALZIEL & PASCOE: 1. A clubbable woman (ej på svenska) / 2. An advancement of learning (ej på svenska) / 3. Ruling passion / 4. An April shroud (ej på svenska) / 5. A pinch of snuff (ej på svenska) / 6. A killing kindness (ej på svenska) / 7. Deadheads / 8. Exit lines (ej på svenska) / 9. Child's play (ej på svenska) / 10. Under world / 11. Bones and silence / 12. One small step (kortroman, ej på svenska) / 13. Recalled to life / 14. Pictures of perfection / 15. Asking for the moon (ej på svenska) / 16. The wood beyond / 17. On Beulah Height / 18. Arms and the women (ej på svenska) / 19. Dialogues of the dead : or Paronomania! a word game for two players / 20. Death's jest-book / 21. Good morning midnight / 22. The death of Dalziel / 23. A cure for all diseases (ej på svenska) / 24. Midnight fugue.

NOVELLSAMLINGAR: There are no ghosts in the Soviet Union / Pascoe’s ghost / A candle for Christmas.