- American Science fiction, Fiction in English, Fiction, general, Fiction, fantasy, epic
Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes soeurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit la population indigène de la seconde. Des décennies plus tard, après que les colons ont été eux-mêmes vaincus et dispersés, un ethnologue consacre sa vie à retrouver les traces de cette culture effacée et oubliée.
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- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Gene Wolfe
- First published
- April 8, 1999
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Tor Trade, Gollancz, Carcosa
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English, French, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9782253119272
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“When I was a boy my brother David and I had to go to bed early whether we were sleepy or not.”
Gene Wolfe was born in Texas. After dropping out from Texas A&M University, he served in the Korean War, and later graduated from the University of Houston. He worked first as an engineer, notably designing part of the machine that produces Pringles potatoe chips, and later as the editor of a professional engineering magazine, *Plant Engineering*. Wolfe was a prolific writer, publishing over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories in his life. He was known for the complexity of his narratives and the depth of his characters, frequently using unreliable or fallible narrators to enhance his thematic focus on memory. His work explores topics of morality, often through the lens of his Catholic f
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