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Book by Japrisot Sebastien
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During the First World War five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no-man's land and certain death. Five bodies are later recovered, the families are notified that the men died in the line of duty and the whole, distasteful incident appears closed. After the war the fiance of one of the men receives a letter which hints at what might have happened. Mathilde Donnay determines to discover the fate of her beloved amid the carnage of battle. A Very Long Engagement turns into an unusual and engrossing thriller as she discovers an increasing number of people trying to put her off the scent. Japrisot's achievement is to have written a novel that is both a suspenseful thriller and one which transforms a single small incident into the epitome of all wartime atrocities. The denouement, when it finally happens, is moving and horribly convincing.
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"The narrative is brilliantly complex and beguiling, and the climax devastating" (Independent)
"Clever, highly readable... Neither predictable nor surprising, the dénouement, when it finally happens, is shocking, moving and horribly convincing" (Literary Review)
"A classic of its kind, brewing up enormous pathos undiluted by sentimentality" (Daily Telegraph)
"A fierce, elliptical novel that's both a gripping philosophical thriller and a highly moving meditation on the emotion consequences of war" (New York Times)
"Only the best historical fiction can make the journey into a distant time and return with a believable sense of how things really were. That Japrisot's book has done so is a mark of his great talent and experience as a writer" (Washington Post)
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. AC4 - A hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has small smudges, light discoloration, and light shelf wear. Book has light shelf wear. A novel. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 8.75"x5.75", 327 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Translated by Linda Coverdale. In January 1917, five wounded French soldiers, hands bound before them, are brought to the front at Picardy by their own troops, forced to climb from the trenches onto the narrow strip of no-man's-land that separates French and German armies, and left to die in the cross fire. Their brutal punishment has been hushed up for over two years when Mathilde Donnay, a young, wheelchair-bound woman from a small town in the South, begins a relentless quest to find out whether her fiancé, officially "killed in the line of duty", may still be alive. As the fiercely independent and wonderfully imaginative Mathilde combs the country for information about the other four soldiers- a farmer from the Dordogne, a street hustler from Marseilles, a Parisian trade unionist, and a carpenter- an elaborate web of deception and coincidence emerges. Struggling against all reason and counsel. Mathilde carries her search to its end, and in discovering what happened to the five men, she comes also to an understanding of the horrors, and the acts of kindness, brought about by war. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur meg25
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hardcover. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. New York. 1993. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0374283354. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. 327 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. keywords: Europe France Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Set during and after the First World War, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT tells the story of a young woman's search for her fiance, whom she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as 'killed in the line of duty.' Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love. inventory #31829 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. N° de réf. du vendeur z31829
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