by Patrick Deville · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433978875
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«Peste & Cólera» is the historical novel by Patrick Deville, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss doctor, arrives in 1887 in Louis Pasteur's Paris and researches tuberculosis and diphtheria. He then sets sail for the Far East, explores the jungle and travels through China, Aden and Madagascar. During the 1894 Hong Kong epidemic he discovers the plague bacillus. Yersin's journey intersects with a century of science, wars and colonization.
Panorama de narrativas collection, no. 857; translation by José Manuel Fajardo. Original title: Peste & Choléra. Won the Prix Femina, the Prix FNAC and the Prix des Prix 2012.
For readers of historical and travel fiction, with an interest in medical and scientific discoveries of the late 19th century.
Patrick Deville is a French writer.
