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Leon & Louise

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Haus Publishing 2012Description: 265 pagesISBN:
  • 9781908323132
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 833.92
LOC classification:
  • PT2663.A64
Summary: Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Lǒn Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the two lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy Lǒn's marriage and by the German invasion of France. In occupied Paris during the Second World War, where Lǒn struggles against the abhorrent tasks imposed upon him by the SS, and the wilds of Africa, where Louise confronts the hardships of her primitive environment, they battle the vicissitudes of history and the passage of time for the survival of their love.
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Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Lǒn Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the two lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy Lǒn's marriage and by the German invasion of France. In occupied Paris during the Second World War, where Lǒn struggles against the abhorrent tasks imposed upon him by the SS, and the wilds of Africa, where Louise confronts the hardships of her primitive environment, they battle the vicissitudes of history and the passage of time for the survival of their love.

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