by Jean-Christophe Rufin · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070417308
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«Asmara et les causes perdues» is the novel by Jean-Christophe Rufin, published by Gallimard in paperback (303 pages, in French).
In 1985, a group of French aid workers arrives in Asmara, the former Italian colonial capital of Eritrea, to help a population hit by war and famine. Hilarion Grigorian, an Armenian from Eritrea, narrates with irony the internal disputes, passions and political manipulations of the mission: the portrait of a generation seeking causes to commit to.
The edition belongs to the Folio collection. The work was first published in 1999 as Les Causes perdues and won the Prix Interallié and the Prix littéraire de l'armée de terre Erwan-Bergot.
A read for those interested in humanitarian aid, the history of Ethiopia and contemporary French literature.
Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor, diplomat, historian and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger, one of the earliest members of Médecins Sans Frontières, and a member of the Académie française.
