by Jean Vautrin · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440616357
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«Un gran paso hacia el buen Dios» is the novel by Jean Vautrin, published by Ediciones B in paperback, with 440 pages, in Spanish.
Set in Louisiana among the first French settlers, it follows three generations of the family of Edius Raquin, his wife Bazelle and their daughter Azeline. Other notable characters include the outlaw Farouche Ferraille Crowley and the sailor Palestine Northwood. Their lives cross from the bayous to a New Orleans where jazz is born.
Translation by Manuel Serrat Crespo; original French 'Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu', winner in 1989 of the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. Tiempos Modernos collection.
For fiction readers who enjoy family sagas, the pioneers of Louisiana and the origins of jazz.
Jean Vautrin, real name Jean Herman, was a French writer, filmmaker and film critic.
