by Erik Orsenna · SEUIL · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724243628
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«L'Exposition coloniale» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Seuil in hardback (554 pages, in French).
The novel follows Gabriel, a man with two passions: rubber and two English sisters, Ann and Clara. On his journey he crosses a decaying empire, from the Amazon to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, while discovering truths about love, family, and the colonial legacy.
It won the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, both in 1988.
For readers of historical fiction with an interest in the decline of the colonial empire and in settings such as the Amazon and Paris.
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.
