Title : The Colonial Exhibition - Erik Orsenna - Book

Summary :

Goncourt Prize 1988 - Goncourt Prize for High School Students 1988

My name is Gabriel.

I was born in 1883 in Levallois, the horse capital. Louis was my father, a wedding enthusiast. For over half a century, I have loved two sisters: Clara, the tall one, a shtetl photographer, and Ann, the blonde one, a businesswoman who only gives of herself standing up.

Thanks to them, my life will have resembled a colonial exhibition: a false empire, dreams too big, a show for families...

Thanks to them, I will have known the Amazon, Belem do Para, positivism, the port of London, car racing, the secret life of Clermont-Ferrand, Freud's beautiful friends, the hideous face of the Vélodrome d'hiver, old Hué, capital of tombs... And so many other curiosities.

Ann and Clara taught me unsuspected truths, for example that rubber is like democracy, it prevents civil wars between things, that without bicycles we would never have lost Dien Bien Phu, or that heartaches are sweeter in the jungle...

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