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Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France ' For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce, eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great man. And she did. This, his thrilling, wildly romantic autobiography, is the story of his journey from poverty in Eastern ...Show more
The Kites by Romain Gary
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Published in France in 1980, The Kites is a beautifully written novel about the triumph of joy over darkness. 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 ...Show more
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary; Jonathan Griffin; David Bellos (Introduction by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Available again with a new introduction by David Bellos, the distinguished translator of Georges Perec and biographer of Romain Gary, "The Roots of Heaven" takes as its subject the deliberate and relentless hunting and killing of elephants for their ivory. Morel, a former dentist whose survival in a Naz ...Show more
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