A Very Long Engagement
by Japrisot, Sebastien
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374283354
- ISBN 13
- 9780374283353
- Seller
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About This Item
Comments: Tight copy.
Synopsis: In January 1917, five wounded French soldiers, their hands bound behind them, are brought to the front at Picardy by their own troops, forced into the no-man's land between the French and German armies, and left to die in the cross fire. Their brutal punishment has been hushed up for more than two years when Mathilde Donnay, unable to walk since childhood, begins a relentless quest to find out whether her fiancé, officially "killed in the line of duty," might still be alive. Tipped off by a letter from a dying soldier, the shrewd, sardonic, and wonderfully imaginative Mathilde scours the country for information about the men. As she carries her search to its end, an elaborate web of deception and coincidence emerges, and Mathilde comes to an understanding of the horrors, and the acts of kindness, brought about by war.
A runaway bestseller in France and the winner of the 1991 Prix Interallié, this astonishing novel is many things at once: an absorbing mystery, a playful study of the different ways one story can be told, a moving and incisive portrait of life in France during and after the First World War, and a love story of transforming power and beauty.
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- Bookseller
- Encanto Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55542
- Title
- A Very Long Engagement
- Author
- Japrisot, Sebastien
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374283354
- ISBN 13
- 9780374283353
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- A Very Long Engagement, France, Mystery, Sebastien Japrisot, War, WW1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama;
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.