{"product_id":"les-fidelites-successives-nicolas-d-estienne-d-orves-livre","title":"Successive Loyalties - Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves - book","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eTitle\u003c\/strong\u003e : Successive Loyalties - Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves - book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSummary :\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e Cazes Brasserie Lipp Prize 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “A champion of double-dealing, I no longer know who I am, nor what life is truly mine.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e English and French, resistance fighter and collaborator, coward and hero, Guillaume Berkeley oscillates between lies and truth in occupied Paris. In love, like his older brother Victor, with Pauline, their half-sister, he lives to the rhythm of his \"successive loyalties.\"\u003cbr\u003e Served by clear writing, this romantic fresco explores, with sensitivity and lucidity, the romantic ambiguities and political commitments of a complex character, sometimes shadow, sometimes light, victim of his inner demons and confronted with circumstances beyond his control. \u003cbr\u003eNicolas d'Estienne d'Orves, Roger Nimier Prize for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eOthon or the Still Dawn, gives us here an ambitious novel where reality and illusion appear as two figures of the same coin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe press\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"The breath of romance and history is colonized by a more personal story, with a rather bittersweet sweetness... Without doubt one of the most important books of this new season.\" \u003cstrong\u003eLivres Hebdo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “Expertly orchestrated.” \u003cstrong\u003eTechnikart\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “A sweeping novel whose author has managed to create a gripping adventure, a successful historical portrait and a reflection on Good and Evil in a troubled period of our history.” \u003cstrong\u003ePage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"The book is irresistible and at times unbearable. You look away, like at the movies, tears flow... A meditation on the Second World War imbued with both immense hope and violence, giving the novel the dimension of a fresco with assumed painful overtones.\" \u003cstrong\u003eLiterary news\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves dips his pen in the brackish bath of occupied Paris and the result is delightful.\" \u003cstrong\u003eParis-Match\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"This book is a flow. The author plays on all the romantic tables, describes a Paris of dark hours with multiple faces, paints hallucinatory portraits and masters, until the end, his plot and his suspense.\" \u003cstrong\u003eLe Parisien\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “At once a portrait of morals, a historical fresco, and a depth psychology, a novel served by fluid writing and an impressive knowledge of its subject.” \u003cstrong\u003eLe Figaro Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“The pleasure of the historical novel meets the ambition of literature. A master's work.” \u003cstrong\u003eMarianne\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves comes to slap us with 700 pages of collaborationist aberration. To grasp the guy's nerve, you have to read this demented and twilight saga, which allows us to grasp, better than many academic speeches and pompous booklets, not the accuracy of a period, not its historicity, but at least its complexity.\" \u003cstrong\u003eLe Figaro littéraire\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"It's always exhilarating to see a writer succeed in surprising us with a hackneyed subject... From a nebula of astonishing characters, the author creates a novelistic material as fascinating as it is terrifying. And keeps us in suspense until the 720th page.\" \u003cstrong\u003eLa Vie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “A very convincing description, mixing critical thinking, irony and fascination, of Paris during the Occupation. 700 colorful pages that are eagerly devoured.” \u003cstrong\u003eLe Point\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“His most accomplished and ambitious work... 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