Vango (Tome 1-Entre ciel et terre)

Synopsis of Vango (Tome 1-Entre ciel et terre)

«Vango, I: Entre ciel et terre» is the young adult novel by Timothée de Fombelle published by Gallimard in paperback (448 pages, in French).

Vango grows up apart from the world in the Aeolian Islands; as a child he discovers a secret monastery whose monks take him in. He crosses the Atlantic on the Graf Zeppelin and enters a seminary in Paris, hounded by mysterious forces. When he is about to be ordained a priest, the police pursue him in Notre-Dame: they accuse him of a crime while Europe heads to war.

First volume of the «Vango» series, published in 2016 in Gallimard's Folio collection.

For young adult readers and lovers of adventure novels with mystery, travel and a chase.