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- PublisherSt. Martins Press-3PL
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0312424582
- ISBN 13 9780312424589
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. First Edition. RivetingA fierce elliptical novel thats both a gripping psychological thriller and highly moving meditation on the emotional consequence of war The New York TimesIn January 1917 five wounded French soldiers hands bound before them are brought to the front at Picardy by their own troops forced to climb from the trenches onto the narrow strip of nomansland that separates the French and German armies and left to die in the crossfireTheir brutal punishment has been kept secret for over two years when Mathilde Donnay a young wheelchairbound woman from a small town in the South begins a relentless quest to find out whether her fiance officially killed in the line of duty might still be aliveThe fiercely independent and determined Mathilde combs the country for information about the other four soldiersA farmer from the DordogneA former carpenterA Parisian trade unionistA street hustler from MarseillesAs she uncovers more about their lives an elaborate web of deception and coincidence emerges Struggling against all reason and counsel Mathilde carries her search to its end and in discovering what happened to each of the five men Mathilde also begins to understand the horrorsand the acts of kindnessbrought about by warA runaway bestseller the winner of the Prix Interallie prize and a major motion picture A Very Long Engagement is an engrossing mystery a playful study of the different ways one story is told and a moving and incisive portrait of life in France during and after the First World WarPraise for A Very Long EngagementA kind of latterday War and PeaceThis is a book that is many things a war story a story of official corruption an idyll of young summer love and a rich and most original panorama of French men and women living in peace and robbed of itRichard Eder Los Angeles Book Review. Seller Inventory # DADAX0312424582
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