by Jean-Christophe Rufin · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070178643
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«Le tour du monde du roi Zibeline» is the historical novel by Jean-Christophe Rufin, published by Gallimard in paperback (384 pages, in French).
Benjamin Franklin listens to Auguste and Aphanasie, who have crossed the Atlantic to tell him their story. A Central European nobleman, contemporary of Voltaire and Casanova, travels through Siberia and China until becoming king of Madagascar. Rufin gives this story, presented as authentic, the air of an eighteenth-century oriental tale.
The cover bears the subtitle «roman»; the edition is dated 2017. The book belongs to Gallimard's Blanche collection.
For those seeking historical and adventure fiction with an eighteenth-century atmosphere.
Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor, diplomat, historian and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger, one of the earliest members of Médecins Sans Frontières, and a member of the Académie française.
