A Sun for the Dying(1999)

Jean-Claude Izzo

From the author of the Marseilles Trilogy

A year before his untimely death, Jean-Claude Izzo penned his masterpiece: this dramatic story of a man's search for human intimacy.


Rico has been banished to society's margins; he has neither a roof over his head nor a steady income on which to depend. When a friend and fellow tramp dies of exposure after a night spent in the Paris metro, Rico decides to flee the northern cold for his beloved south, for Marseilles and the Mediterranean.