000 01122nam a2200169 4500
020 _a9781908323132
024 _a813189707
050 _aPT2663.A64
082 _a833.92
100 1 _aAlex Capus
245 1 _aLeon & Louise
260 _bHaus Publishing
_c2012
300 _a265 pages
520 _aSummer 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.
650 _aHistorical Fiction; Romance
999 _c14880
_d14880