by Patrick Deville · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021434026
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«Fenua» is the novel by Patrick Deville, published by Seuil in paperback (361 pages, in French).
The novel traverses Polynesia, that imaginary territory of scattered atolls that gives the book its name. Deville evokes the colonial rivalry between France and the United Kingdom and figures such as Bougainville, Stevenson, Melville and, above all, Gauguin; he also shows the dark side of paradise: the French nuclear tests of the 20th century.
The work is part of Seuil's Fiction & Cie collection and was published in 2021.
For readers of contemporary French literature interested in the colonial history of the Pacific and travel narratives.
Patrick Deville is a French writer.
