by Marc Dugain · Vertigo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788862060080
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«La stanza degli ufficiali» is the historical novel by Marc Dugain, published by Vertigo in paperback (156 pages, in Italian).
1914. Adrien Fournier, a young engineer and officer, is disfigured by a shell splinter upon arriving at the front of the First World War. He spends the five years of the war in a hospital without mirrors, among officers wounded in the face. The novel explores lost identity and the camaraderie of faceless men.
Novel originally published in 1998 as «La Chambre des officiers»; this Italian edition belongs to the Approdi collection and was recognised with the Prix du premier roman de l'université d'Artois.
For readers of historical fiction and narratives about the First World War interested in the physical and psychological aftermath of soldiers.
Marc Dugain is a French novelist and film director, best known for La Chambre des Officiers (1999), a novel set in World War I.
