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Pure
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Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.
At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.
"Every so often a historical novel comes along that is so natural, so far from pastiche, so modern, that it thrills and expands the mind. 'Pure' is one... Miller's newly minted sentences are arresting, often unsettling and always thought-provoking. Exquisite inside and out, 'Pure' is a near-faultless thing: detailed, symbolic and richly evocative of a time, place and man in dangerous flux. It is brilliance distilled, with very few impurities." -- Telegraph