by Erik Orsenna · ISBN 9782020122078
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«L'exposition coloniale» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Editions du Seuil in 1988 (555 pages, in French).
Late nineteenth century. Gabriel grows up among dreamers: a whimsical bookseller father and a grandmother nostalgic for the colonies. The young man chooses science, flees to Brazil and takes part in the rubber boom. A storm brings him closer to two unpredictable sisters, Ann and Clara, and amorous passion intersects with his fate.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 1988; finalist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1992.
For readers of contemporary French fiction looking for a story of adventure, travel and love with a historical and colonial backdrop.
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.
