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A Very Long Engagement

A Very Long Engagement

by SebastienJaprisot (Author), Linda Coverdale (Translator)

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Synopsis

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

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 327
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Nov 2004
ISBN 10: 0312424582
ISBN 13: 9780312424589

Media Reviews
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


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

Author Bio
Sebastien Japrisot was the pen name of Jean Baptiste Rossi. He wrote seven novels, including One Deadly Summer, The Sleeping Car Murders, The Passion of Women, and The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun.