by François Bott · Le Cherche Midi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782749109121
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«Vel'd'Hiv'» is the historical novel by François Bott, published by Le Cherche Midi in paperback (204 pages, in French).
In 1930s Paris, Raymond and Simon, two inseparable friends, grow up at the Vélodrome d'Hiver amid cycling and boxing. In the great roundup of July 16–17, 1942, French police arrest thousands of Jews and concentrate them at the velodrome; Raymond sees Simon and his father for the last time before they disappear.
Published in August 2008, the novel is historical fiction about the persecution of Jews in France during World War II.
For readers of historical fiction interested in World War II and the memory of the Shoah.
François Bott was a French author who after a long career as a journalist and literary critic became a writer of novels, one of which, Une minute d’absence (2001), won the Académie Française's Prix de la Nouvelle. He continued as a literary critic, writing essays focused on other writers, especially Roger Vailland.
