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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221195765
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 270
Size : 135 x 215 mm
Blue Island

Release date : 25/08/2016
June 1940. A group of children enters adolescence—and war. The re-release of one of Jean Raspail’s classic works.
“We were, fourteen, fifteen years old. Our kingdom was Blue Island, a mystical universe and secret playland. Until the bright morning in June ’40 when, in one instant, all six of us entered adolescence by tumbling into an actual war, such that we were, playing for real.
Three Panzer tanks appeared...
“We were, fourteen, fifteen years old. Our kingdom was Blue Island, a mystical universe and secret playland. Until the bright morning in June ’40 when, in one instant, all six of us entered adolescence by tumbling into an actual war, such that we were, playing for real.
Three Panzer tanks appeared from out of the woods on the other side of the river and came to a stop in front of the bridge. Standing outside the turret, almost smiling, as if on vacation, a German lieutenant not yet twenty was watching us through binoculars…And the wind of our fantasies lifted! And fear, despair, shattered dreams, reality, fate… that was what we wanted to be, the adolescents of our time, or so everyone thought of us.” - Jean Raspail
 
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EAN : 9782221195765
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 270
Size : 135 x 215 mm
Robert Laffont