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  • Published: 24 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781635420555
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $45.00

Clay

A Novel




In this captivating Faulknerian tale of love, masculinity, and vengeance, tensions boil over in a rural mountain community whose able-bodied men have left to fight in World War I.

In this captivating Faulknerian tale of love, masculinity, and vengeance, tensions boil over in a rural mountain community whose able-bodied men have left to fight in World War I.

In the heart of Cantal, in the heat of the summer of 1914, the men resigned themselves to going off to fight, far away. Joseph, just 15 years old, must take care of the family farm with his mother, his grandmother, and Leonard, an old neighbor who has become his friend. On the property next door, Valette, kept away from the war due to an atrophied hand, dwells on his grudges and his rage. And now he has to take in his brother's wife and daughter, who have sought refuge with him. The arrival of the two women will end up upsetting a hitherto immutable order and awakening buried passions.

  • Published: 24 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781635420555
  • Imprint: Other Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $45.00

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Praise for Clay

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“This book feels like the Marquis de Sade’s Justine if Justine had written it…show[ing] the author’s keen observational skills when it comes to class and gender.” CrimeReads, Best International Crime Fiction of the Month

“Undoubtedly effective…There are plenty of narrative surprises as Rose’s father seeks to recover her, and she falls in love with the mysterious Edmond.” The Guardian, The Best New Fiction in Translation