An international bestseller and winner of the prix goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle abel tiffauges...An international bestseller and winner of the prix goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle abel tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to "Ogre" Of the nazi school at the castle of kaltenborn, taking us deeper into the dark heart of fascism than any novel since.