Sidestepping the incipient Algerian War of Independence, a young Algerian Jew leaves Paris for a lakeside town in the French Alps. Years later he is haunted by this seemingly idyllic summer. A subtle exploration of memory, identity and our desire to understand the past.
Villa Triste
£9.99
Edition:Paperback978190797093125/08/2016From a Bookshelf nearby
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Another chronicle from the author of 'The Years', now looking back on her girlhood: a mix of Duras and de Beauvoir.
A Girl’s Story
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The Camondos, Rothschilds, Ephrussis and others amassed superb collections which in many cases they left to the state that betrayed them.
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SOE sent more than 400 agents into France of whom 39 were women. Vigurs traces them all here, not just the well known ones, and sets them in their context.
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And Their Children After Them
Hardback £16.99