by Noël Barber · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253135395
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«La Ballade des jours passés» is the historical novel by Noël Barber, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (667 pages, in French).
In 1931, Larry Astell and his sister Anna, children of a champagne producer, watch Europe head towards war. Guy, the third brother, joins the Resistance. The novel combines realism and melancholy for lost time in a choral epic with French, American, Italian and German characters united against barbarism.
The French edition appeared in 1994; the original English work, 'A Farewell to France', was published in 1983.
For readers of historical fiction and war fiction set during the Second World War.
Noel Barber was a British novelist and journalist. Many of his novels, set in exotic countries, are about his experiences as leading foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail. He was the son of John Barber and his Danish wife, Musse, and had two brothers: Kenneth, a banker, and Anthony Barber, Baron Barber.
