by Sébastien Japrisot · Umbriel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495618788
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Largo domingo de noviazgo» is the novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Umbriel in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
In the winter of 1917, five wounded and bound French soldiers are abandoned in no man's land, accused of self-harm to escape the front. Mathilde, convinced that her fiancé Manech is still alive, reconstructs step by step the last days of those men. Years after the war, her stubborn search gradually reveals a web of love, guilt and abandonment stories woven around a secret.
The original title, «Un long dimanche de fiançailles», was published in France in 1991 and won the Prix Interallié.
For readers of historical and mystery novels set during the First World War.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
