A Very Long Engagement Sébastien Japrisot

A Very Long Engagement

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A Very Long Engagement
Author
Sébastien Japrisot
ISBN
9780312424589
Now a major motion picture from Amelie's director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and featuring Audrey Tautou and Jodie Foster comes a very different love story: A Very Long Engagement based on the acclaimed novel by Sébastien Japrisot A runaway bestseller in France and winner of the 1991 Prix Interallié, Sébastien Japrisot's novel about World War I was acclaimed as a latter-day War and Peace by The New York Times. Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiancé who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as killed in the line of duty. Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Sébastien JaprisotPublisher: Picador USAPublished: 11/15/2004ISBN: 9780312424589Pages: 336Weight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00dReview Citations: Entertainment Weekly 01/14/2005 pg. 92Entertainment Weekly 03/02/2012 pg. 76

Now a major motion picture from Amelie's director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and featuring Audrey Tautou and Jodie Foster comes a very different love story: A Very Long Engagement based on the acclaimed novel by Sébastien Japrisot

A runaway bestseller in France and winner of the 1991 Prix Interallié, Sébastien Japrisot's novel about World War I was acclaimed as a latter-day War and Peace by The New York Times.

Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiancé who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as killed in the line of duty. Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Sébastien Japrisot
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/15/2004
ISBN: 9780312424589
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 01/14/2005 pg. 92
Entertainment Weekly 03/02/2012 pg. 76

Now a major motion picture from Amelie's director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and featuring Audrey Tautou and Jodie Foster comes a very different love story: A Very Long Engagement based on the acclaimed novel by Sébastien Japrisot

A runaway bestseller in France and winner of the 1991 Prix Interallié, Sébastien Japrisot's novel about World War I was acclaimed as a latter-day War and Peace by The New York Times.

Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiancé who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as killed in the line of duty. Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Sébastien Japrisot
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/15/2004
ISBN: 9780312424589
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 01/14/2005 pg. 92
Entertainment Weekly 03/02/2012 pg. 76