Madame

by Antoni Libera (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2007

  $6.68

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $5.17

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $15.04

  Madame tells the story of a self-absorbed Polish teenager as he pursues intellectual maturity, and the woman of his dreams, his French teacher 'Madame', in the communist-dominated Warsaw of the early 1970s. Libera paces his exuberant young hero's fulminations, fantasies and discoveries beautifully, building a remarkably subtle characterisation of a free mind in a repressive culture. This is one of those rare novels which reminds us why we love books. A consummate literary entertainment.