by Patrick Deville · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021077209
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«Peste & Choléra» is Patrick Deville's biographical novel, published by Seuil in paperback (224 pages, in French).
«Peste & Choléra» recounts the life of Alexandre Yersin, a young researcher at the Pasteur Institute who travelled to Asia, became a sailor and explorer, and discovered the plague bacillus in Hong Kong in 1894. Later settling in Nha Trang (Indochina), he combined his scientific research with the cultivation of rubber and cinchona until his death in 1943.
The work received the Prix Femina 2012 and the Prix du roman Fnac 2012, and belongs to Seuil's Fiction & Cie collection.
Novel in French aimed at readers interested in biographies of scientists, the exploration of Asia and the history of medicine.
Patrick Deville is a French writer.
