The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
034083126X
ISBN-13
9780340831267
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint
Sceptre
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 2nd, 2006
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
136 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 13.10 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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An astounding novel that penetrates the 20th-century experience, from one of Europe's most feted authors
In present-day France a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s and the old Frenchwoman, a family friend, whose tales fed his dreams of a better world. One story in particular has stayed with him: that of her brief, passionate affair, during World War II, with the French fighter pilot Jacques Dorme, who subsequently died in a plane crash in the Siberian mountains. So the narrator decides to retrace Jacques Dorme''s steps, beginning a journey which leads him not only to revisit the land of his birth but also to see his adopted homeland in an unflattering new light. A profound and moving novel about the dangers of ideology and of war, delivered with humour, sensuousness and great lyricism.
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