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A Very Long Engagement

A Novel

by Sébastien Japrisot
Isabel Keating
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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 Sébastien Japrisot
A runaway bestseller in France and winner of the 1991 Prix Interallié, Sébastien 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 fiancé 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 Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.

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  • Release date

    May 18, 2006

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781593975678
      • File size: 272390 KB
      • Duration: 09:27:28

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Five soldiers reportedly killed in action in the last days of WWI were actually victims of a horrific miscarriage of military justice. Mathilde Donnay's fiancé, Manech, was one of those soldiers. Two years after the war, a dying officer suggests a different story, and she embarks on a search for the truth. In spite of confinement to a wheelchair, Mathilde persistently follows all leads to find the truth. Isabel Keating's narration is engrossing, painting a picture of war in all its humanity, in-humanity, and horror. This is not an audiobook you can multitask with; keeping the details straight will require all your attention . . . but it's worth the effort. N.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

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