Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia - the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree - and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history.
A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny - ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgangers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest - as well as a famously ambiguous climax.
- ISBN10 1847490743
- ISBN13 9781847490742
- Publish Date 1 May 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 September 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Alma Books Ltd
- Imprint Oneworld Classics Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 280
- Language English