by Henri Troyat · J'ai Lu · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782277300069
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«La Neige en deuil» is the novel by Henri Troyat, published by J'ai Lu in paperback (98 pages, in French).
An airplane traveling from India with gold on board crashes on an Alpine glacier. Marcellin, a young man living with his brother Isaïe in a mountain village, sees the accident as an opportunity for wealth and convinces him to climb the summit and plunder the aircraft. The expedition reopens old wounds and turns greed into a fraternal tragedy.
Originally published in 1952, it received the Grand Prix du Prince Rainier de Monaco. The Librio cover states «texte intégral» and mentions Henri Troyat, a member of the Académie française.
For readers of classic French literature and mountain stories with fraternal conflict.
Henri Troyat was a Russian-French writer, biographer, historian, and novelist.
