by Romain Gary · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070374670
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«Les cerfs-volants» is the historical novel by Romain Gary, published by Folio in paperback (384 pages, in French).
Ludo, raised in Normandy by his uncle Ambroise, a postman who makes kites, meets Lila, a Polish aristocrat, at the age of ten and falls in love with her. With a prodigious memory, he follows her to Poland in 1939. The Second World War separates them, and the kites remain a symbol of freedom and hope.
The novel originally appeared in 1980, and this paperback edition, in the Folio collection (number 1467), was published in 1983.
For readers of historical fiction set during the Second World War and of twentieth-century French literature.
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.
