<p>"Silky prose in this harrowing account of crime and punishment."?Kirkus Reviews<br>"Using spare, effective prose, Chessex brilliantly renders both the inhospitable winter landscape of the mountains and the harshness of a society that makes monsters of its victims.'?London Review of Books<br>"A superb novel, hard as a winter in these landscapes of dark forests, where an atmosphere of prejudice and violence envelops the reader."?L'Express<br>"I...