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Title: ON LEAVE
By: Daniel Anselme, David Bellos (Trans)
Format: Hardback

List price: £16.99


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ISBN 10: 0141393874
ISBN 13: 9780141393872
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 10 March, 2014
Series: Penguin Modern Classics 134
Pages: 224
Description: Lays bare the darkest moment of France's post-war history. This book presents a timeless evocation of what the history books can never record: the shame and terror felt by men returning home from war.
Synopsis: This is a lost classic lays bare the darkest moment of France's post-war history. First published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, On Leave received a handful of reviews and soon disappeared from view. Through David Bellos' translation, this lost classic has been rediscovered. Spare, forceful and moving, the novel describes a week in the lives of a sergeant, a corporal and a private, home on leave in Paris. Full of sympathy and feeling, informed by the many hours Daniel Anselme spent talking to conscripts in Paris, On Leave is a timeless evocation of what the history books can never record: the shame and terror felt by men returning home from war. Daniel Anselme was born Daniel Rabinovitch in 1927, and adopted the name Anselme while in the French Resistance with his father. He traveled widely as a journalist, and was known as a raconteur and habitue of Left Bank cafes. He published his first novel On Leave in 1957, a second, Relations, in 1964, and a semiautobiographical account of his wartime experiences called The Secret Companion in 1984. He was also one of the leaders of Solidarity Radio in Paris. He died in 1989.David Bellos is Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, where he is also Professor of French and Comparative Literature. He has won many awards for his translations of Georges Perec, Ismail Kadare and others, including the Man Booker Translator Award, and received the Prix Goncourt de la biographie for his book on Perec.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Returns: Returnable
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