Brazil Red - Couverture souple

Rufin, Jean-Christophe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393336549 ISBN 13 : 9780393336542

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2004

Synopsis

Brazil Red tells the story of two orphaned children, Just and Colombe, who are dragged off on the French colonizing expeditionthey are meant to learn the native languages and act as interpreters. Everything in this novel is outsized: the setting, a jungle still populated by cannibals; the characters, including Villegagnon, the expedition's eccentric leader, who might be a model for Cyrano or d'Artagnan; and the events, a dress rehearsal for the Wars of Religion ten years in the future. Packed with portraits, landscapes, and action, Brazil Red is a novel about coming of age and discovering love. On a deeper level, the story follows the destinies and decisions of Just and Colombe, presenting two conflicting views of man and nature. On one hand, a conquering European civilization, offering liberation but delivering death. On the other, the Indian world, with its sensuality, its harmony, its sense of the sacred, its continual call to happiness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jean-Christophe Rufin is a founder of Doctors without Borders and author of the prize-winning first novel The Abyssinian. He lives in France.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393336549
• ISBN 13: 9780393336542
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 440
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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