Where the Grass No Longer Grows

A story surrounding a tragic but oft-forgotten moment in France in the Second World War.

About the author

Georges Magnane (1907 - 1985) was the pen-name of René Catinaud, born into a farming family in the Limousin, central France. He went from there to the Ecôle Normale d'instituteurs in Paris before completing his studies in Oxford. As well as being a teacher and novelist, Magnane was a journalist (he covered the 1948 London Olympics for Sartre's L'humanité) a pioneer of the sociology of sport in France, a translator (notably of Updike, Nabokov and Capote), and a scriptwriter for theater and film.

Product details

• Authors: Georges Magnane
• Assisted by: Jerome Fletcher (Translation)
• Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781912868834
• ISBN: 978-1-912868-83-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Dedalus European Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature