Nos vemos allá arriba / Goodbye, Up There

from Widsith

A very strange book to have won the Goncourt Prize - it's more superficially engaging than you might expect from French literary fiction (the author is better known as a writer of thrillers), but also much more shallow. In fact it doesn't really seem to be about anything, except for a string of v...

from Cornelia16

Frankreich 1918: In den letzten Kriegstagen rettet der Soldat Édouard seinem Kameraden Albert das Leben, wird dabei aber so schwer entstellt, dass er nicht heimkehren will. Albert verschafft ihm eine neue Identität. Er ahnt nicht, in was für Schwierigkeiten er sich damit bringt. P. Lemaitre wurde...

from AHS-Wolfy

With the great war coming to an end and the chances for further quick advancement in rank dwindling, Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay-Pradelle arranges for one last offensive to take a strategically important position. To accomplish this though requires nefarious means and when two soldiers stumble acro...

from PhilipJHunt

This one is rather unlike the Camille trilogy (which is more violent and thrilling). Derived from a true event in post-WW1 France, LeMaitre has invented a grand scheme or two and a bunch of sad, dark and miserable characters to go with them. The plot is straight-forward and linear, again unlike t...

from danhammang

I can't help but shake my head with a wry grin as I consider that this book, out of all the fiction I have read, is the first to have footnotes and that the author is French. The style owes much to Victor Hugo. The climax is only partially satisfying. I'm not sure it was worth plodding through ov...