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The French Art of War

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Informationen zum Autor Alexis Jenni is a French novelist and biology teacher. His debut novel, The French Art of War , won the 2011 Prix Goncourt. He lives in Lyon. Frank Wynne is an Irish literary translator and writer. Klappentext 1991. A young man is mesmerized by the rolling coverage of Desert Storm. Forging sick notes to avoid work and feigning reasons to avoid his girlfriend, he gradually destroys his whole life. Then he meets Victorien Salagnon, an elderly artist and a veteran of countless wars. Together, they strike a bargain: Salagnon will teach the young man to paint and, in return, he wants his memoirs written down, a ranging, bloody life story of being a teenage résistant in Nazi-occupied France; of hunting rebels in Indochina and engaging in torture in Algeria; of the deaths that were as numberless as they were senseless; of the killing fields on which the modern world is built. Vorwort Angry, dazzling and humane, The French Art of War is the Goncourt-winning novel about the intervals of peace and the moments of unspeakable savagery in French wars spanning half the world and half a century. Zusammenfassung 1991. A young man is mesmerised by the rolling coverage of Desert Storm. Forging sick notes to avoid work and feigning reasons to avoid his girlfriend, he gradually destroys his whole life. Then he meets Victorien Salagnon, an elderly artist and a veteran of countless wars. Together, they strike a bargain: Salagnon will teach the young man to paint and, in return, he wants his memoirs written down, a ranging, bloody life story of being a teenage résistant in Nazi-occupied France; of hunting rebels in Indochina and engaging in torture in Algeria; of the deaths that were as numberless as they were senseless; of the killing fields on which the modern world is built.

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Authors Alexis Jenni, Alexis (Author) Jenni, Jenni Alexis
Assisted by Frank Wynne (Translation), Frank (Translator) Wynne (Translation), Wynne Frank (Translation)
Publisher Atlantic Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 30.11.2017
 
EAN 9780857897541
ISBN 978-0-85789-754-1
No. of pages 612
Dimensions 128 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, War & combat fiction, Generational sagas, Fiction: general and literary, War, combat and military adventure fiction

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