by Pierre-Jean Rémy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226048547
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«Chine» is the novel by Pierre-Jean Rémy, published by Albin Michel in paperback (762 pages, in French).
The narrative follows a group of people for whom China is at once refuge, obsession and exile; in a plot that blends the poetic and the political, the dreamed and the real. Set around 1988-1989, it includes a diplomatic intrigue between France and Britain, impossible loves, ambitions and the presence of History.
Originally published in 1990, it was awarded the Prix Amerigo Vespucci 1991. Pierre-Jean Rémy, French writer and diplomat, was a member of the Académie française.
For readers of literary fiction seeking a story with a political and historical backdrop about China.
Pierre-Jean Rémy is the pen-name of Jean-Pierre Angremy who was a French diplomat, novelist, and essayist. He was elected to the Académie française on 16 June 1988, and won the 1986 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for his novel Une ville immortelle.
