To write In Cold Blood (1966), a nonfiction novel that revolutionized world literature, Truman Capote (1924-84) spent five years in Kansas researching the murder of members of the Clutter family and collecting the confidences of its two authors.
Jealous, racist, greedy, vengeful and desperate, the villagers of Reunion Island place their fate in the hands of a sorcerer, Monsieur Caron, whose son suffers from a mysterious curse and whose only remedy is a very special offering.
