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Now a major motion picture from "Amelie"'s director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and featuring Audrey Tautou and Jodie Foster comes a very different love story: "A Very Long Engagement "based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien JaprisotA runaway bestseller in France and winner of the 1991 Prix Interallie, Sebastien Japrisot's novel about World War I was acclaimed as "a latter-day "War and Peace"" by "The New York Times."Set during and after the First World War, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiance who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENTis a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.… (meer)
Het is geen gemakkelijk boek; veel namen en bijnamen, verschillende plaatsen, relaties, verwikkelingen. Het verhaal wordt wel goed opgebouwd. Er bestaat ook een film van; die wil ik tóch nog gaan bekijken ookal heb ik het verhaal wel begrepen en komt het ook tot een echt einde. Niet zo'n verhaal waarbij je aan het eind nog niet weet wát er gebeurd is. ( )
He shoved it three-quarters of the way into the earth, after enclosing within a message addressed to whoever should find the grave, a page torn from his notebook on which he had written in pencil, as best he could, resting the paper on his knee:
Here lie five French soldiers, who died with their shoes on, chasing the wind,
Now a major motion picture from "Amelie"'s director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and featuring Audrey Tautou and Jodie Foster comes a very different love story: "A Very Long Engagement "based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien JaprisotA runaway bestseller in France and winner of the 1991 Prix Interallie, Sebastien Japrisot's novel about World War I was acclaimed as "a latter-day "War and Peace"" by "The New York Times."Set during and after the First World War, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiance who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENTis a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.
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