Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
- Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Infobox Book |
name = Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
title_orig = Sous les vents de Neptune
translator = Sian Reynolds
image_caption = 1st English edition cover
author = Fred Vargas
cover_artist =
country = France
language = French
series = Commissaire Adamsberg
genre = Crime novel
publisher = Viviane Hamy (French) The Harvill Press (English)
release_date = 2004
english_pub_date = January 2007
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 441 pp (French) 388 pp (English)
isbn = ISBN 2-87858-190-3 (French)
ISBN 1-84343-273-0 (English)
preceded_by = Have Mercy on Us All
followed_by = This Night's Foul Work
"Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand" ( _fr. Sous les vents de Neptune, lit. "Under Neptune's Winds") is a crime novel by French author Fred Vargas, originally published in France in 2004. The novel is part of her internationally popular Commissaire Adamsberg series. As with many of Vargas' novels in English translation, the English title isn't a literal translation. It adroitly chooses a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth (Act II, Scene ii, 57-8): "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
In 2007 the book was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, the second year in a row Vargas was shortlisted for the award (The Three Evangelists having won the previous year), and the first time an author has been shortlisted for a main CWA Award for three successive novels. In the year 2007 this novel won the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award.
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