A New York Times Notable Book 2018'A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most original writers' Independent 'The Kites is a novel touched from beginning to end with grace, a great saga about the innate dignity of love that succeeds in the feat of being funny and poetic, tender and sharp, committed and fierce, with a touch of brilliance in the art of dialogue' Muriel Barbery, author of The Elegance of the HedgehogA quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old and lives with his uncle, a kindly, eccentric creator of elaborate kites. One day, sitting in a strawberry field, Ludo meets the beautiful young Polish aristocrat Lila. And so begins Ludo's lifelong adventure of love and longing for Lila, who only begins to return his feelings just as Europe descends into the devastation of World War 2. After Poland and France fall, Lila and Ludo are separated. Ludo's friends in the village must find their own ways of resisting: the local restaurateur who is dedicated above all to France's haute cuisine, a Jewish brothel madam who sleeps with her unwitting enemies and Ludo, who cycles past the Nazis every day, passing on messages...
Author: Romain Gary
Binding: Paperback / softback
Format: Paperback / softback
Genre: Media > Books > Print Books > Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Pages: 320
Page Count: 320
Publication Date: 2019
Year of Publication: 2019
Classification: Media > Books > Print Books > Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Weight: 358 g
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Package Dimension Length: 19.8 cm
Package Dimension Width: 13.2 cm
Package Dimension Height: 1.9 cm
ISBN: 9780241345627
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