EAN: 9780241345627

THE KITES - ROMAIN GARY KARTONIERT (TB)

A New York Times Notable Book 2018'A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller  a master
craftsman and one of France's most original writers' Independent 'The Kites is a novel touched
from beginning to end with grace  a great saga about the innate dignity of love that succeeds
in the feat of being funny and poetic  tender and sharp  committed and fierce  with a touch of
brilliance in the art of dialogue' Muriel Barbery  author of The Elegance of the HedgehogA
quiet village in Normandy  1932. Ludo is ten years old and lives with his uncle  a kindly 
eccentric creator of elaborate kites. One day  sitting in a strawberry field  Ludo meets the
beautiful young Polish aristocrat Lila. And so begins Ludo's lifelong adventure of love and
longing for Lila  who only begins to return his feelings just as Europe descends into the
devastation of World War 2. After Poland and France fall  Lila and Ludo are separated. Ludo's
friends in the village must find their own ways of resisting: the local restaurateur who is
dedicated above all to France's haute cuisine  a Jewish brothel madam who sleeps with her
unwitting enemies and Ludo  who cycles past the Nazis every day  passing on messages for the
French Resistance - thinking always of Lila.

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