by E. Orsenna · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253157939
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«L'Entreprise des Indes» is the historical novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback, in French.
The narrative begins with the voice of Christopher Columbus's brother, who knew the navigator's idea from the start and witnessed the growth of his obsession with reaching the Indies. The book focuses on Columbus's passion for cartography and the atmosphere of the fifteenth century, when the voyage project was still a personal obsession.
The work was originally published in 2010; this Le Livre de Poche edition appeared on 24 August 2011.
For readers of historical fiction and stories about explorers, navigation and geographical discoveries.
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.
