by Siegfried Lenz · Editions de Fallois / L'âge d'homme · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877060271
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Champ de tir» is the novel by Siegfried Lenz, published by Editions de Fallois / L'âge d'homme in paperback (341 pages, in French).
«El Patron», a stubborn man who arrived from the East after the war, creates a nursery on an old shooting range. Bruno, the narrator, whom he saved at the end of the conflict, has worked all his life at his side. When the Patron's family places him under guardianship, Bruno discovers that his protector wanted to bequeath him part of his property, a gift that terrifies him.
Originally published in German as «Exerzierplatz» (1985), this French edition appeared in 1989, with a translation by Claude Chenou.
For readers of literary fiction and European narrative; critics have compared the novel to the work of Knut Hamsun.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
