His Life Was Set in Stone

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