The quality of this novel is due both to its anchorage in the reality of the time he is in the gradual elucidation of a mystery, the way of the best thrillers in its complex characters and thus so deeply human - the judge conducting the investigation, an aristocrat values marked by the Great War; a curiously educated peasant and her lover, the father of her child, hero despite himself fighting on the Eastern front., held prisoner in a jail a deserted barracks
And then there Guillaume, Guillaume dog by which, in a sense much happened, key figure because it holds the key to the drama ..
The style is simple. It sticks to the real of each protagonist. Jean-Christophe Rufin, in this novel about fidelity, do not go away embouchant the Theban trumpets. The most highly experienced its values, t of this ilk.
