by SebastienJaprisot (Author), Linda Coverdale (Translator)
In 1919, Mathilde Donnay, a young wheelchair-bound woman in France, begins a quest to find out if her fianc , supposedly killed in the line of duty two years earlier, might still be alive. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. (A Warner Bros. Independent Pictures film, releasing Fall 2004, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, starring Audrey Tautou & Jodie Fo
Format: Paperback
Pages: 327
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Nov 2004
ISBN 10: 0312424582
ISBN 13: 9780312424589
Riveting...A fierce, elliptical novel that's both a gripping psychological thriller and highly moving meditation on the emotional consequence of war. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
A kind of latter-day War and Peace. ..This is a book that is many things: a war story, a story of official corruption, an idyll of young summer love, and a rich and most original panorama of French men and women living in peace and robbed of it. Finally, giving it all an intent energy, it is a hybrid of the detective story and the classical quest. Richard Eder, Los Angeles Book Review
Riveting...A fierce, elliptical novel that's both a gripping psychological thriller and highly moving meditation on the emotional consequence of war. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
A kind of latter-day War and Peace...This is a book that is many things: a war story, a story of official corruption, an idyll of young summer love, and a rich and most original panorama of French men and women living in peace and robbed of it. Finally, giving it all an intent energy, it is a hybrid of the detective story and the classical quest. --Richard Eder, Los Angeles Book Review