New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of psychological suspense by this award-winning French author, screenwriter and film director. A story of revenge as conceived and carried out by a young girl, the daughter of a German woman brought to France as a conscript worker, but who was abandoned by the man she was living witht after she bore him a girl. Set in a rural French town, both primitive - water still drawn from a central well - and affected by movies and modern society. This received the Prix des Deux Magots in 1978 and the film version, directed by Jean Becker in 1983, was awarded four Csar Awards, including one to Japrisot for Best Adaptation.Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-151693811.