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His Life Was Set in Stone

The Wall Street Journal

November 29, 2025

A strange discovery sets a writer on the trail of a young man who was killed in World War II.

- SAM SACKS

"I WANTED A house where I could invent some roots for myself," Hervé Le Tellier writes in "The Name on the Wall" (Other Press, 176 pages, $16.99), and he thought he found what he was looking for in a former inn near the town of Dieulefit in southe

This story is from the November 29, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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