Jean Péloueyre, the sickly, unlovely son of a landowner in the pine country of the Landes, is married off to Noémi, a beautiful young woman whose family cannot refuse his fortune. Shut up together through rainy winters, both try to do their Christian duty, and Mauriac follows with unsparing tenderness what that duty costs them.
The short novel that made Mauriac’s name, a masterpiece of Catholic fiction by a future Nobel laureate. Download the free EPUB.