by Paula Jacques · Gallimard Education · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070374908
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«Lumière de l'œil» is the novel by Paula Jacques, published by Gallimard Education in paperback format (273 pages).
In Cairo from 1952-1957, the novel follows the last days of the Jewish community through a gallery of boastful and innocent men and women as history totters. A lonely girl meets Edmond, a survivor of Auschwitz, who initiates her into feminine power, the games of the courtesan, and the fate of the diaspora.
Originally published in 1983, it belongs to the Folio collection from Gallimard and includes the complete text.
For readers of literary fiction seeking a choral novel set in mid-twentieth-century Egypt.
Paula Jacques is a French novelist, journalist, and host of the programme Cosmopolitaine on the French public station France Inter.
