by Marc Dugain · Vertigo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788862060080
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«La stanza degli ufficiali» is the historical novel by Marc Dugain, published by Vertigo in paperback (156 pages, in Italian).
1914. Adrien Fournier, a young engineer and officer, is disfigured by a shell splinter upon arriving at the front of World War I. He spends the five years of the war in a hospital without mirrors, among officers wounded in the face. The novel explores lost identity and the camaraderie of faceless men.
Novel originally published in 1998 as «La Chambre des officiers»; this Italian edition belongs to the Approdi collection and was recognized with the Prix du premier roman de l'université d'Artois.
For readers of historical fiction and narratives about World War I interested in the physical and psychological aftermath of soldiers.
Marc Dugain is a French novelist and film director, best known for La Chambre des Officiers (1999), a novel set in World War I.
