The Hollow Field

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 Hollow Field

Author	Marcel Aymé
Original title	La Table-aux-crevés
Translator	Helen Waddell
Publisher	Éditions Gallimard
Publication date	14 October 1929
Published in English	1933
Pages	276

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.^[3]