by Sébastien Japrisot · Edições Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724113722
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«Um Longo Domingo de Noivado» is the love and mystery novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Edições Asa in paperback (212 pages, in Portuguese).
In the midst of World War I, five soldiers are sent to almost certain death before the enemy trenches. One of them, Mathilde's fiancé, disappears; after the war, she begins a stubborn investigation to find out what happened and whether he is still alive, guided by hope and the memory of their love.
Originally published in French as «Un long dimanche de fiançailles», it won the Prix Interallié and was adapted into a movie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with Audrey Tautou.
Aimed at readers of historical, romantic and mystery fiction set during World War I.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
