by Erik Orsenna · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020100175
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«L'Exposition coloniale» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Seuil in paperback (560 pages, in French).
L'Exposition coloniale follows Gabriel, born in 1883 in Levallois, and narrates Gabriel's love for two sisters, Clara and Ann. Journeys through the Amazon, London, Clermont-Ferrand and Hué mark an ironic tale about family, desire and the mirage of empires, until Gabriel's own life becomes a colonial exhibition.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 1988. Belongs to Seuil's Cadre rouge collection.
For readers of literary fiction in French interested in novels awarded the Prix Goncourt.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
