by Marc Dugain · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070119998
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«L'insomnie des étoiles» is the novel by Marc Dugain, published by Gallimard in paperback (240 pages, in French).
In autumn 1945, at the end of the Second World War, Captain Louyre and his company of French soldiers arrive in southern Germany. Near their destination they discover an isolated farm where a teenage girl lives alone and find the charred body of a man. The girl offers no explanation and is arrested, but the captain, against the opinion of his superiors, investigates on his own because he senses a greater secret behind the war.
Novel published in 2010, with the subtitle «roman», in Gallimard's Blanche collection. ISBN 9782070119998.
For readers of historical fiction and mystery looking for stories set in the European postwar period with a protagonist determined to uncover the truth.
Marc Dugain is a French novelist and film director, best known for La Chambre des Officiers (1999), a novel set in World War I.
