by Michael Chabon · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221094143
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«Les Extraordinaires aventures de Kavalier & Clay» is the novel by Michael Chabon, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (632 pages, in French).
In the New York of the Golden Age of comics, cousins Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay create a superhero, the Escapist; Joe, a Jew who fled occupied Prague, hopes thus to save his family, while the novel portrays the comics industry and World War II.
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. French edition from the Pavillons collection, published in 2003; original title: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in the Golden Age of comics and in twentieth-century Jewish history.
Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.
