Boku Ga Shinda Ano Mori / Original Title: TROIS JOURS ET UNE VIE

[Machine Translation] Antoine, a twelve-year-old boy living in a small village with his mother, killed a six-year-old boy from a neighboring house. Under the treehouse Antoine had built in the forest. He did not intend to kill him. It was just a momentary fit of rage, a momentary outpouring of grief over the death of the dog he had always played with, and the loneliness and disappointment that had been building up in his heart. But the little child was dead. Antoine hid the body and returned home. But the village is shaken by the child's disappearance. The police and the media arrive. The search for the forest would soon begin. Antoine realizes that the watch he has always worn is gone. His watch, which he always wore, is missing. What if it had been found with the body? Antoine's fear is slowly creeping up on him. Will this clever twelve-year-old commit the perfect crime? Three days from the morning of the murder until the storm comes to the village - the price for which Antoine's life will be ruined. The world-famous mystery author of "The Woman Alex" and "The Confinement Interview," winner of the Goncourt Prize, France's largest literary award, pursues a boy with crime, punishment, and fear. This is a masterpiece of crime literature that is impossible to anticipate and depicted with too sharp a brush.

母とともに小さな村に暮らす十二歳の少年アントワーヌは、隣家の六歳の男の子を殺した。森の中にアントワーヌが作ったツリーハウスの下で。殺すつもりなんてなかった。いつも一緒に遊んでいた犬が死んでしまった悲しみと、心の中に積み重なってきた孤独と失望とが、一瞬の激情になってしまっただけだった。でも幼い子供は死んでしまった。死体を隠して家に戻ったアントワーヌ。だが子供の失踪に村は揺れる。警察もメディアもやってくる。やがてあの森の捜索がはじまるだろう。そしてアントワーヌは気づいた。いつも身につけていた腕時計がなくなっていることに。もしあれが死体とともに見つかってしまったら...。じわりじわりとアントワーヌに恐怖が迫る。十二歳の利発な少年による完全犯罪は成るのか?殺人の朝から、村に嵐がやってくるまでの三日間―その代償がアントワーヌの人生を狂わせる。『その女アレックス』『監禁面接』などのミステリーで世界的人気を誇り、フランス最大の文学賞ゴンクール賞を受賞した鬼才が、罪と罰と恐怖で一人の少年を追いつめる。先読み不可能、鋭すぎる筆致で描く犯罪文学の傑作。