Book guide
Pure
A young engineer sent to cleanse a Paris cemetery finds history, desire and revolution rising from the grave.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
Genre and trope pairingsLiterarySocial commentary
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About Pure
In Paris in 1785, Jean-Baptiste Baratte is ordered to empty Les Innocents, an overflowing cemetery poisoning the neighbourhood’s air and water. What begins as a rational project to clear away the past becomes a year of unrest, danger, friendship, desire and sudden violence on the cusp of the French Revolution.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- death
- rape
- suicide
- sudden death
- corpse remains
- gore
- violence
- murder
- vomit
