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1) The kites
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On a small farm in Normandy, as Hitler rises to power in Germany, young Ludo comes of age in the care of his Uncle Ambrose, an eccentric mailman, kite-maker, and pacifist. Ludo’s quiet existence changes the day he meets Lila, a girl from the aristocratic Polish family who own the estate next door. In a single glance, Ludo instantly falls in love forever; Lila, on the other hand, remains elusive. Thus begins Ludo’s adventure of longing, passion,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A novel of desperate love, bitter hope, chilling courage and relentless bravery. This quietly terrible parable for our times was first published in France fifteen years ago and was awarded the Prix de Critiques. It was translated into fourteen languages, but not into English. Since then M. Gary has won international fame with several other books. Now an entirely rewritten and, M. Gary hopes, a much improved version of A EUROPEAN EDUCATION is published...
3) Gros-câlin
Author
Series
Collection Folio volume 906
Publisher
Mercure de France
Pub. Date
1977, ©1974
Language
Français
Author
Series
Verba Mundi volume 30
Publisher
David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Follows Morel, a Frenchman who survives the Holocaust - a survival he credits to imagining elephants roaming the wilderness. Once free, he travels to French Equatorial Africa with the aim of saving his beloved elephants from being hunted and killed for meat and ivory. Realizing his more conventional tactics are not eliciting a response, however, he turns militant, and the story takes a dark turn." --