The Gendarme - Couverture rigide

Mustian, Mark T.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0399156348 ISBN 13 : 9780399156342

Editeur : Putnam Pub Group, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Mustian Mark T

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this extraordinarily haunting, deeply moving novel, an old man comes face-to-face with the horrors of his past, and sets out to find the love of his life and beg her forgiveness. To those around him, Emmet Conn is a ninety-two-year-old man on the verge of senility. Now, at the end of his life, he suddenly finds himself tormented by dreams of a march across a foreign land, of appalling acts of cruelty, and the anguish of a lost love. But these are no dreams and he is no prisoner. The Gendarme is a unique love story that explores the power of memory, and the ability of people, individually and collectively, to forget. Depicting how love can transcend nationalities and politics, how racism creates divisions where none truly exist, and how the human spirit fights to surviveeven in the face of hopelessness, this is a superbly transcendent novel.

Revue de presse

'A story that probes a timeless array of life's general adversities: the tricks of memory that enable us to carry on with our daily existence; the brash decisions and subsequent regrets of the young; the ever present need for forgiveness; the way a single event can be subject to many interpretations.' --The New York Times

'Mustian writes relentlessly, telling his haunting story in brief bursts of luminous yet entirely unsentimental prose and reminding us that, when life gets bloody, we had better watch out for our own humanity.' --Library Journal

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Putnam Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0399156348
• ISBN 13: 9780399156342
• Reliure: Relié