Cyclone
Publisher
:
Actes Sud
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782742728473
Description
Key West, Florida, 1933. Roberto and Diodata, two Italians who fled the premises of Mussolini’s fascism, find refuge in this port isolated from the rest of the world, as if to forget their political engagement. A sudden hurricane hits the city and incites them to leave for Cuba, and later for the Europe they had fled, which they will find even more devastated than before. A novel filled with historical tragedies, Cyclone takes the reader back to the Spanish War and the International Brigades, the refugee camps of the south of France, the French resistance in Marseilles and Italy, and the massacres in the Jewish ghetto of Rome. Full of endearing characters and beautiful imagery, Cyclone questions the weariness of this past century, and the coincidences, happiness and traps of political engagement. Cyclone has been nominated for several literary prizes this season, including the prestigious Prix Goncourt, Prix Renaudot and Prix Interallié.
Author
Gérard Cortanze : Gérard de Cortanze is the author of about 40 books translated in ten different languages.
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