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“daniel anselme”

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  • On Leave

    A Novel

    by Daniel Anselme, David Bellos ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    A long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable warWhen On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Bruno And Le Pere Noel

    A Bruno, Chief of Police, Christmas Story

    by Martin Walker ...
    Series Book 11 - Bruno, Chief of Police
    It’s the last market day before Christmas and Bruno, Chief of Police, is preparing for a traditional gastronomic feast. But, never off duty for long, Bruno is called to action when he receives information that a prisoner on parole has gone missing, last seen heading for St. Denis, where his ex-wife and son live.The goose, the oysters, his English girlfriend’s Christmas pudding and Bruno’s famous ... Read more

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  • Lies Told In Silence

    by M. K. Tod ...
    In May 1914, Helene Noisette’s father believes war is imminent. Convinced Germany will head straight for Paris, he sends his wife, daughter, mother and younger son to Beaufort, a small village in northern France. But when war erupts two months later, the German army invades neutral Belgium, sweeping south towards Paris. And by the end of September, Beaufort is less than twenty miles from the front ... Read more

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  • The Snows Of Kilimanjaro

    Short Story

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Dying slowly of an infected wound while on safari in Africa, Harry reflects on his privileged and decadent life, and confronts his failure of realize his potential as a writer. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” is recognized as one of Ernest Hemingway’s greatest works, and inspired the film adaptation starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.One of America’s foremost journalists and authors, Ernest ... Read more

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  • Lost in France

    by Rita Clements Lee ...
    Dedicated to Mrs. Cabanes for her kindness and hospitality.In a pithy, humorous memoir, the author recounts from her letters, the most vivid experiences of her student days as an assistant at a School in Albi, Southern France. 1969/70. ... Read more

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  • The Red Collar

    A Novel

    by Jean-Christophe Rufin ...
    "A beautifully memorable and unusual story about war and what it does to us" from the bestselling author and founder of Doctors Without Borders ( The Independent).In 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the crushing heat of summer, a war hero is being held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. In front of the door to his prison, a mangy dog barks night and day. Miles from ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Arvida

    by Samuel Archibald ...
    Series Book 15 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Samuel Archibald is the hottest young writer in Quebec. In a region where short story collections might sell worse than anywhere else in North America, Arvida sold through 25,000 copies.Arvida fits in naturally with "country noir" authors like Donald Ray Pollock and Daniel Woodrell, but with a sharp and humorous French-Canadian twist.The collection explores topical subjects, including the collapse ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • War and Turpentine

    A novel

    by Stefan Hertmans ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearThe life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Centurions

    by Jean Larteguy ...
    Translated by Xan Fielding ...
    The military cult classic with resonance to the wars in Iraq and Vietnam—now back in printWhen The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed: how to fight when the “age of heroics is over.” As relevant today as it was ... Read more

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  • Leon and Louise

    by Alex Capus ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the two lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy Léon's ... Read more

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  • Closely Watched Trains

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Edith Pargeter ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writersFor twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the pretty conductor Masha, the scandalous goings-on in the station master's office. Beside them, the part he will come to play ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Roch Carrier's La Guerre Trilogy

    by Roch Carrier ...
    Translated by Sheila Fischman ...
    Series series A List
    The A List edition of one of the major achievements in recent Quebec literature — Roch Carrier’s La Guerre trilogy is a vital, moving, and assured portrait of life in Quebec.This volume includes:La Guerre, Yes Sir! A surrealist fable set in rural Quebec during WWI. Canadian Literature greeted its first appearance in these terms: “It is the French-Canadian writer Roch Carrier who comes closest to ... Read more

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