by Sébastien Japrisot · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782207256497
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«Un long dimanche de fiançailles» is the historical novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Denoël in paperback (366 pages, in French).
In the midst of World War I, five French soldiers condemned for self-mutilation are abandoned before the enemy trench. Mathilde, fiancée of the youngest, Manech, refuses to believe in his death and undertakes a stubborn investigation to find out what happened, confronting silence and official lies.
The work «Un long dimanche de fiançailles», originally published in 1991, won the Prix Interallié.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction with a wartime backdrop, as well as for those who appreciate mystery plots.
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.
