by Anne Weber · Matthes & Seitz Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783957578457
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«Annette, ein Heldinnenepos» is the biographical epic by Anne Weber, published by Matthes & Seitz Verlag in hardback (208 pages, in German).
It reconstructs the life of Anne Beaumanoir, born in 1923 in Brittany and raised in humble surroundings: her time in the French communist Resistance, the rescue of two young Jews, her career as a neurophysiologist in Marseille, and her 1959 sentence of ten years in prison for supporting Algerian independence.
Winner of the Deutscher Buchpreis 2020, an award noted on the cover of this edition.
For readers of biographical and historical fiction interested in the French Resistance, the Algerian War, and the figure of committed women.
Anne Weber is a German-French author, translator and self-translator.
