D'une île à l'autre | Patrick Renou

EAN : 9782258195462

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Pages : 320

Size : 150 x 210 mm

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From One Island to Another

Patrick Renou

Release date : 19/08/2021

Autumn 1946. From Cherbourg to New York, aboard the luxury liner L'île de France, Milena, a Latvian stowaway, gives birth to her child on the first night without uttering a word. And from the simple sailor to the stars of the time, all the passengers will be moved by the destiny of the young woman who escaped hell.

This is "A truly wonderful novel, about a wonderfully true story" wrote André Comte-Sponville, one of the first readers of the manuscript. Patrick Renou, leafing through a beautiful book about the November 1946 journey from Ile de France to New York, came across the story of a stowaway whose language... This is "A truly wonderful novel, about a wonderfully true story" wrote André Comte-Sponville, one of the first readers of the manuscript. Patrick Renou, leafing through a beautiful book about the November 1946 journey from Ile de France to New York, came across the story of a stowaway whose language no one understood, and who gave birth to a little girl. He was deeply moved and immersed himself in the archives of Cherbourg and New York. In his novel, he reinvents Milena's fate in a very elegant style. Latvian and Jewish, she survived the concentration camps, and over the seven days of a memorable journey, her destiny was sealed. The magnificent Chet Baker plays at night, Marcel Cerdan fights an outstanding fight, sumptuous buffets are set up day after day. "Writing about a fact that happened long ago, or becoming the historian of this fact, means to be so deeply looked at by the past that one becomes its depositary in order to give it back, to offer it to the present and the future. " commented Arlette Farge after reading this novel (of which she wrote the afterword).

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EAN : 9782258195462

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 320

Size : 150 x 210 mm

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