The War of the Poor

A short, brutal tale by the author of The Order of The Day: the story of a moment in Europe's history when the poor rose up and banded together behind a fiery preacher, to challenge the entrenched powers of the ruling elite.

About the author

Éric Vuillard is a writer and filmmaker born in Lyon in 1968 who has written nine award-winning books, including Conquistadors (winner of the 2010 Prix Ignatius J. Reilly), and La bataille d’Occident and Congo (both of which received the 2012 Prix Franz-Hessel and the 2013 Prix Valery-Larbaud). He won the 2017 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, for L’ordre du jour.

Summary

A short, brutal tale by the author of The Order of The Day: the story of a moment in Europe’s history when the poor rose up and banded together behind a fiery preacher, to challenge the entrenched powers of the ruling elite.

Foreword

A short, brutal tale by the author of The Order of The Day: the story of a moment in Europe’s history when the poor rose up and banded together behind a fiery preacher, to challenge the entrenched powers of the ruling elite.

Additional text

A short and incandescent text.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Vuillard, Éric Vuillard, Vuillard Eric
• Assisted by: Mark Polizzotti (Translation), Polizzotti Mark (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781529038552
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-3855-2
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 7 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction