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The French Art of War

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The French Art of War
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alexis Jenni
Translated by Frank Wynne
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:624
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
War and combat fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780857897541
ClassificationsDewey:843.92
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Atlantic Books
Imprint Atlantic Books
Publication Date 2 November 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you see. Everything was going wrong. I just awaited the end. But then I met Victorien Salagnon, a veteran of the great colonial wars of Indochina, Vietnam and Algeria, a commander who had led his soldiers across the globe, a man with the blood of others up to his elbows. He said he would teach me to paint; he must have been the only painter in the French Forces, but out there no one cares about such things. I cared, though. In return, he wanted me to write his life story. And so he talked, and I wrote, and through him I witnessed the rivers of blood that cut channels through France, I saw the deaths that were as numberless as they were senseless and I began finally to understand the French art of war.'

Author Biography

Alexis Jenni is a French novelist and biology teacher. His debut novel, The French Art of War, won the 2011 Prix Goncourt. He lives in Lyon.

Reviews

Bold, brave, magnificent. * Irish Times * Shock-and-awe virtuosity * Financial Times * A masterpiece. -- Frederic Beigbeder * Le Figaro * Difficult to put down and impossible to forget * Irish Times *