by Erik Orsenna · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472231191
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«La Exposición Colonial» (Prix Goncourt 1988) is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (566 pages, in Spanish).
Gabriel Orsenna, born in 1883, feels an early vocation for the search for rubber, which leads him to travel halfway around the world and especially Brazil, influenced by his grandmother Margarita and the positivism of his era. Around him, eccentric characters and humorous situations make up a story of love, adventure and colonialism.
This edition belongs to the Andanzas collection (no. 99) and the translation is by Emma Calatayud. The original title is L'Exposition coloniale.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, with an interest in adventure narrative and twentieth-century French literature.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
