The Hollow Field (French: La Table aux crevés) is a 1929 novel by the French writer Marcel Aymé.
It tells the story of the rivalry between two farming villages, Cantagrel and Cessigney, which is triggered after a failed attempt at tobacco smuggling.
An English translation by Helen Waddell was published in 1933.
[1] The novel received the Prix Renaudot.
[2] It was adapted into the 1951 film The Village Feud [fr], directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Fernandel, Maria Mauban and Fernand Sardou.