The red collar - Brossura

Rufin, Jean-Christophe

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1609452739 ISBN 13: 9781609452735

Casa editrice: Europa Editions, 2015

Riassunto

In 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the crushing heat of summer heat wave, a war hero is being held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. In front of the door to his prison, a mangy dog barks night and day. Miles from where he is being held, in the French countryside, a young extraordinarily intelligent woman works the land the land, waiting and hoping. A judge whose principles have been sorely shaken by the war is travelling to an unknown location to sort out certain affairs of which it is better not to speak.
 
Three characters. In their midst, a dog who holds the key both to their destinies and to this intriguing plot.
 
Full of poetry and life, The Red Collar is at once a delightly simple narrative about the human spirit and a profound work about loyalty and love.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

&quotThe story is about the depressed and angry soldier outraged by the vagaries of bad timing, yet it is more fully about humanity, a determined dog and dawning perception. Here is a dignified, unsentimental and compassionate narrative to make one feel enriched, somehow better for having read it." --Irish Times

"The Red Collar may be short but it is a engaging story perceptively told in limpid prose, beautifully translated by Adrian Hunter. It is a serious book but one with a gratifying end." --We Love This Book

"Utterly compelling in its psychological understanding." --The Independent

L'autore:

Jean-Christophe Rufin is one of the founders of Doctors Without Borders and a former Ambassador of France in Senegal. He has written numerous bestsellers, including The Abyssinian, for which he won the Goncourt Prize for a debut novel in 1997. He also won the Goncourt Prize in 2001 for Brazil Red.

Adriana Hunter is a British translator of French Literature. She is known for translating more than fifty French novels, such as Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb or The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa. In 2011 she won the Scott Moncrieff prize for her translation of Véronique Olmi's Beside the Sea.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Europa Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1609452739
• ISBN 13: 9781609452735
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 154