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The Kites

by Romain Gary
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, June of 2019 ‧
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A quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old and lives with his uncle, a kindly, eccentric creator of elaborate kites. One day, sitting in a strawberry field, Ludo meets the beautiful young Polish aristocrat Lila. And so begins Ludo's lifelong adventure of love and longing for Lila, who only begins to return his feelings just as Europe descends into the devastation of World War 2.

After Poland and France fall, Lila and Ludo are separated. Ludo's friends in the village must find their own ways of resisting: the local restaurateur who is dedicated above all to France's haute cuisine, a Jewish brothel madam who sleeps with her unwitting enemies and Ludo, who cycles past the Nazis every day, passing on messages for the French Resistance - thinking always of Lila.

«The Kites is a novel touched from beginning to end with grace, a great saga about the innate dignity of love that succeeds in the feat of being funny and poetic, tender and sharp, committed and fierce, with a touch of brilliance in the art of dialogue»
Muriel Barbery, author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog

«A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most original writers»
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The Kites

by Romain Gary

Property Description
ISBN: 9780241345627
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: June of 2019
Language: English
Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 320
Format: Book
Collection: Penguin Modern Classics
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Fiction
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780241345627

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Romain Gary

Romain Gary was born in 1914 in Vilnius, Lithuania (then Poland). A Jew of Russian origin, he emigrated with his mother to Nice in 1928. In 1940 he joined General de Gaulle and the Free French Forces in London and fought as a navigator in the "Lorraine" squadron until the end of the war. Wounded, he received the highest decoration of the French combatants. Compagnon de la Libération and was one of the few survivors of the two hundred men in the squadron. The success of his early novels, European Education and The Roots of Heaven (The Goncourt Prize in 1956) immediately made him a world-famous writer. He held several diplomatic posts in Europe and the USA. In 1975, writing under the pseudonym Émile Ajar, he won the Goncourt Prize again (an "impossible" feat in the prize's history) with A Life Ahead of YouGary committed suicide in 1980, a little over a year after the suicide of his ex-wife Jean Seberg. He left behind a small booklet entitled Life and Death of Émile Ajar, an extraordinary text where he revealed the "mystification" of Ajar.

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