Classe de Neige (Folio) (French Edition)

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Emmanuel Carrère's Class Trip was first published in French 1995 as La Classe de Neige. This new edition issued by Vintage uses the 1997 English translation by Linda Coverdale. Although the novella is narrated in the third person, its viewpoint is that of Nicolas, a young boy in the early years...

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Emmanuel Carrère's Class Trip was first published in French 1995 as La Classe de Neige. This new edition issued by Vintage uses the 1997 English translation by Linda Coverdale. Although the novella is narrated in the third person, its viewpoint is that of Nicolas, a young boy in the early years o...

from lucasmurtinho

The best Carrère book I've read so far. His talent for building up the tension even as narrating banal events sometimes rivals Ian McEwan's. The ending, when Carrère reveals the atrocity the reader has been expecting all along without ever spelling it out, is superb. If contemporary French litera...

from the.ken.petersen

It was pure coincidence that I should read this book after re-reading Albert Camus' 'The Outsider'. This story is of a ten year old boy, Nicholas, who is, to quote the blurb, 'a fussed-over, yet unloved and sadly doomed child'. Carrere was either the most haunted child ever to come out of France,...

from alandavey

Wow, this was a gripping book! The sense of intangible foreboding. The denouement. Jolly good, what!