Now a major French film Au revoir la-haut - Prix Goncourt-winning
masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irene and Camille.
"One of the most pleasurable reading experiences of recent years" -
David Mills, The Sunday Times October 1918: the war on the Western
Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion,
the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts
over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his
men to heroic action once more. And so is set in motion a series of
devastating events that will inextricably bind together the fates
and fortunes of Pradelle and the two soldiers who witness his
crime: Albert Maillard and Edouard Pericourt. Back in civilian
life, Albert and Edouard struggle to adjust to a society whose
reverence for its dead cannot quite match its resentment for those
who survived. But the two soldiers conspire to enact an audacious
form of revenge against the country that abandoned them to penury
and despair, with a scheme to swindle the whole of France on an
epic scale. Meanwhile, believing her brother killed in action,
Edouard's sister Madeleine has married Pradelle, who is running a
little scam of his own... Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
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