On Leave (Paperback)

A long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable war
When "On Leave "was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it was never reprinted, it disappeared from view. With no outcome to the war in sight, its power to disturb was too much to bear.
Through David Bellos's translation, this lost classic has been rediscovered. Spare, forceful, and moving, it describes a week in the lives of a sergeant, a corporal, and an infantryman, each home on leave in Paris. What these soldiers have to say can't be heard, can't even be spoken; they find themselves strangers in their own city, unmoored from their lives. Full of sympathy and feeling, informed by the many hours Daniel Anselme spent talking to conscripts in Paris, "On Leave "is a timeless evocation of what the history books can never record: the shame and the terror felt by men returning home from war.

General

Imprint:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	March 2015
Authors:	Daniel Anselme
Translators:	David Bellos
Dimensions:	185 x 117 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-86547-825-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > General Promotions
LSN:	0-86547-825-2
Barcode:	9780865478251

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