by Erik Orsenna · Librairie Générale Française · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 3010000121183
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«L'entreprise des Indes» is the historical novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Librairie Générale Française in paperback (384 pages, in French).
Historical novel following Bartolomé Colón, brother of Christopher, in the adventure of opening a new route to the Indies. With detailed prose, Orsenna combines ambition, cartography and political challenges, portraying the perseverance required to sustain an exploration project in the 15th century.
Subtitled «Une aventure de Bartolomé Colomb», this edition is from the Le Livre de Poche collection. Erik Orsenna is a member of the Académie française.
For those who enjoy historical fiction and tales of maritime exploration.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
