{"product_id":"a-crime","title":"A Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Georges Bernanos\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Crime\u003c\/b\u003e takes up the thread of Georges Bernanos’s novel \u003ci\u003eA Bad Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, as the village of Mégère and its new parish priest contend with murder. The ostensibly tranquil state of the French countryside is shattered with the discovery of two corpses: Madame Beauchamp, the victim of \u003ci\u003eA Bad Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, and a mysterious stranger. As the collaborative force of police and priest find themselves at an investigative impasse, Bernanos draws the reader deep into the whirlpool that crime creates, one “which invincibly attracts to its center the innocent and the guilty.” In those enigmatic, forbidding depths, Bernanos reveals the spiritual destruction which preceded the murders and the shocking identity of their perpetrator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWhat you must even now impress upon your soul is the idea \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat nothing which happens, happens in vain.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThick with the requisite murder-mystery atmosphere of unsettling suspicion and sudden violence, \u003ci\u003eA Crime\u003c\/i\u003e is a reckoning with good and evil which only the spiritual genius of Bernanos could devise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorges Bernanos\u003c\/b\u003e (1888–1948) was a French Catholic author and critic. Winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française in 1936 (for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of a Country Priest\u003c\/i\u003e), Bernanos had numerous works adapted into film with great critical success; he remains one of the most respected writers of the twentieth-century France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‎978-1952826788\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68197682413753,"sku":"‎978-1952826788","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/ProductImages_190.jpg?v=1794089323","url":"https:\/\/catholicshop.com\/products\/a-crime","provider":"CatholicShop.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}