Les Âmes grises is a novel by the French author Philippe Claudel.
It is a first person narrative which revolves around the murder of a young girl in a small provincial French town near the Western Front in 1917.
The book was published in France in 2003[1] and won the Prix Renaudot.
The British edition, translated by Adriana Hunter, has been released under the title Grey Souls, while the American translation by Hoyt Rogers is called By a Slow River.
The book was also turned into a movie of the same name by director Yves Angelo.