- Kings and rulers, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Authors
En 1945, dans un palace abandonné des Alpes autrichiennes, un écrivain américain traqué, zélateur du fascisme, couvre les murs et les plafonds de ses souvenirs : la Chine de 1924; la France de 1936; l'Espagne de 1938; les Bahamas de 1942. Une méditation sur l'homme et sur l'histoire, par un écrivain canadien anglais de calibre international.
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Contemplative, grave, character-led and prestige.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Timothy Findley
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 396
- Publisher
- ISIS Large Print Books, SERPENT A PLUME, Norstedt
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- fin, Swedish, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780385282710
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Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC OOnt, was a Canadian novelist and playwright. *--Wikipedia*
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