- Fiction, France in fiction, History, Orphans
A mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy Hotel du Lion d'Or in a small French town in the mid-1930's.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Sebastian Faulks
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Atlantida, Hutchinson
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- Korean, Portuguese, English, German
- ISBN
- 9789722906319
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