Synopsis
From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.
'Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work' - Scotsman
'Absolutely spectacular' - France Info
19 October 1950. The war is not going to plan. In Paris, politicians...
Details
28 March 2024192 pages
9781035004003Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work . . . I cannot think of an Anglophone author who writes with such polemical, poetical indignationScotsman
Clever and scathingLe Temps
Absolutely spectacularFrance Info
Pages clenched like fists ready to strike. It is the eternal war of the powerful against the weak that Vuillard stages in each of his booksL'Obs
