



During the Second World War, a unit of the German army of occupation in France was troubled by partisan activity and decided on reprisals against the town of Oradour. As a result of that decision, the name of that small place is known around the world.
In the novel, a former...

The Pork Butcher is finally, bravely, a meditation on fate--not the dimestore novel varieties of kismet or serendipity but Fate as the ancients conceived of it, a rubric for the shape of a life takes, and the confounding bargains one strikes.--David Barber, Boston Review
