Title : The Wild Ponies - Michel Déon - book
Summary :
A year before the start of the Second World War, chance brought together four students in Cambridge, three British and one French. A fifth, also French, would become their historiographer, the witness and confidant of their chaotic lives during the worst episodes of the Cold War. The novel takes its title from a poetic vision, a brief respite from London pounded by the Germans. Death strikes blindly, and Georges Saval escapes for a weekend to an inn in the New Forest with a young woman whose fate is already sealed. Opening the window one morning, they see ponies wandering along the edge of the forest, a last glimpse of a world that will never know peace. The Wild Ponies is a multifaceted book where romance meets merciless history. For its revelations about the Katyn massacre and the Algerian War, it was violently attacked upon its publication. Crowned with the Prix Interallié, it remains one of Michel Déon's masterpieces.
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EAN: 9782070360710
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