by Sebastien Japrisot · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099474548
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«A Very Long Engagement» is the historical fiction novel by Sebastien Japrisot, published by Vintage in paperback (320 pages, in English).
In the winter of 1917, five French soldiers are sent to no man's land as punishment for alleged cowardice. After the war, Mathilde Donnay, fiancée of one of them, undertakes an investigation to uncover the truth, confronting those who seek to hide it. A suspenseful intrigue that unites love and the atrocities of war.
Original title: «Un long dimanche de fiançailles». Winner of the Prix Interallié in 1991. Edition linked to the movie adaptation.
A read for lovers of historical fiction and suspense set during World War I.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
