Les enfants de Liverpool
“The Children of Liverpool” (title translated by AI)
Hugues Corriveau (born 1948)
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On 12 February 1993 in Liverpool, two-year-old James Bulger was abducted from a shopping centre by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both ten years old, and tortured to death. Taking the known facts as raw material, the novel imagines the thoughts and actions of the two child killers: it retraces their lives and the motives that drove them, then follows the trio step by step through that fateful day. Without indulgence or judgement, it tries to weigh the boys' responsibility, to grasp the impulse that led them to such an act, and to show how poverty, alcoholism, bullying and violence can let evil take root in such young children.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 256 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom, 1993
- First published
- 2015 by Éditions Druide
- Author's age
- 67 when first published
- ISBN
9782897112295 (original)