An Honourable Exit

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext Éric Vuillard turns his forensic, darkly humorous eye to the build-up to the war in Vietnam - skewering French and later US politics to show the prelude to the end of the colonial period. Zusammenfassung Éric Vuillard turns his forensic, darkly humorous eye to the build-up to the war in Vietnam – skewering French and later US politics to show the prelude to the end of the colonial period.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Vuillard, Vuillard Eric
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.03.2024
• EAN: 9781035004003
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3500400-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Vietnam, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), France, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Warfare and defence, c 1955 to c 1975 (Vietnam War period), Vietnam War, Vietnam War fiction, FICTION / World Literature / France / 21st Century