Summary
A vividly evocative novel of military tensions and menacing landscapes from one of the finest French writers of the twentieth century.
The great maritime state of Orsenna has long been lulled by settled peace and prosperity. It is three hundred years since it was actively at war with its traditional enemy two days’ sail across the water, the savage land of Farghestan - a slumbering but by no means extinct volcano.
The narrator of this story, Aldo, a world-weary young aristocra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846559297 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846559294 |
| Author: | Julien Gracq |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Harvill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 317g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Julien Gracq
Julien Gracq was born in 1910 in a village of Anjou. As a lieutenant in the French Army he was captured in the fighting round Dunkirk in 1940 but released the following year. A schoolteacher by profession, he taught history and geography for a period in Paris at the Lycee Claude-Bernard while Georges Perec was a pupil there. Julien Gracq (a pen-name) is author of several novels, including Balcony in the Forest; describing as it does the “phoney war” preceeding the outbreak of World War II, that novel has a central element in common with The Opposing Shore.
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