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A New York Times Notable Book 2018 'A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most original writers' Independent 'The Kites is a novel touched from beginning to end with grace, a great saga a
'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!' For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce, eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great man. And she did. This, his thrilling, wildly romantic au
La vie devant soi erzählt die Geschichte der Liebe zwischen einem jungen Araber und einer alten jüdischen Dame, die das Konzentrationslager überlebt hat. Eine Reflexion über Leben und Tod und das umstrittene Recht, über den eigenen Tod zu entscheiden.
Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children at Madame Rosa's boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and as Madame Rosa becomes too ill to climb the stai
"I grew up in the certitude that one day I should help give back the earth to those who ennoble it with their courage and warm it with their love." Promise at Dawn begins as the story of a mothers sacrifice: alone and poor, she fiercely battles
Dans le roman La vie devant soi un des personnages, le docteur Katz, dit au personnage principal Mohammed (Momo) quil ne doit pas pleurer parce quil a encore toute la vie devant lui. Mais Momo, dont lidentité nest connue que peu à peu, sait que pour tous
The Kites begins with a young boy, Ludo, coming of age on a small farm in Normandy under the care of his eccentric kite-making Uncle Ambrose. Ludo's life changes the day he meets Lila, a girl from the aristocratic Polish family that owns the estate ne
The Roots of Heaven takes as its subject the deliberate and relentless hunting and killing of elephants for their ivory. Morel, a former dentist whose survival in a Nazi concentration camp he attributes to his fixation on the freedom and companionability