Plague and Cholera
$25.88
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2015
Summary
Paris, May 1940. Nazi troops storm the city and at Le Bourget airport, on the last flight out, sits Dr Alexandre Yersin, his gaze politely turned away from his fellow passengers with their jewels sewn into their luggage. He is too old for the combat ahead, and besides he has already saved millions of lives. When he was the brilliant young protege of Louis Pasteur, he focused his exceptional mind on a great medical conundrum: in 1894, on a Hong Kong hospital forecourt, he identified and vaccin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349139531 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349139539 |
| Author: | Patrick Deville, J.A. Underwood |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 201mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Cool, clever … unlike anything I’ve read for a long time and something genuinely out of the ordinary– Richard Benson , Big Issue
A fascinating novel about one of the undercelebrated heroes of science - The Times
Plague and Cholera is not just a brilliant reimagining of a fascinating life, it is a hymn to the beauty and destruction of the early twentieth century - a thrilling adventure from start to finish - Tash Aw, Man Booker-nominated author of Five Star BillionaireAn astonishing novel … a fascinating kaleidoscope through which to view the history of France and French colonialism … [A] captivating Conradian tale of discovery and loss - IndependentAbout The Author
Patrick Deville
Patrick Deville is a novelist and French cultural attache. He travels widely and has lived in the Middle East, Africa, south-east Asia and Latin America. He is based in Saint-Nazaire, western France, where he is the literary director of a centre for writers and translators. He is the author of nine acclaimed novels, including the bestselling Plague and Cholera, which was shortlisted for every major literary award in France in 2012 and won the Prix Fnac, Prix Femina and Prix des Prix.
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