The Kites / Romain Gary ; translated from the French by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
- Bib ID:
- 8052976
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gary, Romain, author
- Uniform Title:
- Cerfs-volants. English
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017
- ©2017
- 1 online resource (384 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file eBook 1.1MB
- ISBN:
- 9781925626018
- Summary:
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Set in Normandy before and during WW II, The Kites is narrated by a young orphan Ludo Fleury, who is madly in love with Lila de Bronicki, a charming and self-absorbed Polish aristocrat. Despite the looming war, Ludo remains obstinately in love with Lila, and becomes involved in the Resistance. Ludo's uncle and guardian, the colourful Ambroise Fleury, a passionate amateur kite-maker, is deported to Auschwitz, while Ambroise's best friend, Marcellin Duprat, one of France's greatest chefs, battles the Occupation with an unrelenting love of haute cuisine, and Julie Espinoza, a Parisian madame refashions herself as a collaborationist countess, running a Resistance network under the noses of the Nazis.
- Notes:
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- First published as Les cerfs-volants by Editions Gallimard, 1980.
- General.
- Translated from the French.
- Subject:
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- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Romance fiction, French -- Translations into English
- Romance fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
- Fiction - General
- Fiction - Literary
- FICTION
- Fiction: general & literary
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Orphans
- Romance fiction, French
- Normandy (France) -- Fiction
- Australian
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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