by Jean Rouaud · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433906939
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«Hombres ilustres» is Jean Rouaud's novel of personal memory, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (168 pages, in Spanish).
Portrait of Joseph, the author's father, in two periods: as a travelling salesman in Brittany, supporting his family, and during the Second World War, when he escapes from a train taking him to Germany. He joins the Resistance, meets Anne, and both survive the bombing of Nantes. The son, born later, will be the one to tell the story.
Second instalment of the author's family novel cycle. Originally published in French in 1993 as Des Hommes illustres; translation by Josep Escué, number 342 in Panorama de narrativas.
Jean Rouaud is a French author, who was born in Campbon, Loire-Atlantique. In 1990 his novel Fields of Glory won the Prix Goncourt. First believed to be the first book in a trilogy, Fields of Glory turned out to be the first book in a series of five books on the family history of the author.
