Set in Paris in 1785, Pure tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young engineer tasked with the destruction of the cemetery of Les Innocents. This ancient graveyard has become so overloaded with human remains that the stench of putrefaction is poisoning the air of the capital. Indeed, within a...
I enjoyed Pure a lot. It's no a rip roaring adventure, or something in which a lot happens. It's a slow moving novel in which we see one man's actions move towards the conclusion set out at the beginning of the story, albeit along a twisting path.Along the way we meet the colourful and strange resid...
The stink of the Innocents is permeating the soil, the water, and the air of Paris. The rotting remains of the overstuffed cemetery of les Innocents are leaching into the food and even the very skin and breath of the living inhabitants of the surrounding city. The vast yard of bones and soupy rema...
SynopsisA year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests.A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived.Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting th...
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