- Fiction, general, French fiction, Translations into English
Translated from the French by Paul Knobloch. Originally published in 1947. In the Exopotamian desert, where hepatrols blossom and children collect little animals called sandpeepers, the sun shines in an unusual way.
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Prestige, cool, contemplative and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Boris Vian
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 284
- Publisher
- Tam Tam Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780966234640
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Boris Vian était un homme aux multiples talents : écrivain, poète, musicien, chanteur, traducteur, critique, acteur, inventeur et ingénieur. On se souvient surtout de lui pour des romans tels que *L’Écume des jours* et *L’Arrache-cœur.* Il est également connu pour ses romans policiers controversés, publiés sous le pseudonyme de Vernon Sullivan, et pour certaines de ses chansons (notamment *Le Déserteur,* chanson antimilitariste). Passionné de jazz, Vian a notamment servi d’intermédiaire à Duke Ellington et Miles Davis à Paris, a collaboré à plusieurs revues de jazz françaises *(Le Jazz Hot, Paris Jazz)* et a publié de nombreux articles sur le jazz aux États-Unis et en France. --- Boris Vian
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