by Romain Gary · Random House Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439702771
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«Las raíces del cielo» is the literary fiction novel by Romain Gary, published by Random House Mondadori in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
In the heart of Africa, a narrator evokes the figure of Morel, a Frenchman who in the 1950s arrives in French Equatorial Africa to oppose the slaughter of elephants. Having been through the Nazi concentration camps, Morel sees in the elephant a symbol of freedom and dignity, and his defense pits him against racism and nationalist demagogy.
The novel, originally titled «Les racines du ciel» (1956), won the Prix Goncourt and was adapted into a movie by John Huston in 1958.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction and classic twentieth-century novels, with a story of ethical and social background.
Romain Gary, also known by the pen name Émile Ajar, was a Lithuanian-born French novelist, diplomat, film director, and military aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century.
