One-Way - Hardcover

Cauwelaert, Didier Van

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590510860 ISBN 13: 9781590510865

Verlag: Other Press LLC, 2003

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One-Way recounts the comic, absurd, and all-too-believable adventures of Aziz Kemal, a young Frenchman raised as an Arab by Marseilles gypsies. Arrested for a crime he did not commit, Aziz becomes the target of a government campaign to repatriate illegal immigrants and finds himself en route to Morocco, despite the fact that he is not Moroccan. Accompanying Aziz is a touchingly naive and neurotic "humanitarian attache" named Jean-Pierre Schneider, who drowns his own personal woes in his zeal to build a new life for his charge in a land neither one has ever seen.
It is on the plane to Morocco that events take an unexpected turn, when Aziz, pressed for details of a "birthplace" that is not his, invents the fabulous story of Irghiz, a valley paradise hidden from the world and now in danger of ruin. From this moment on, the attache forgets his original assignment and has only one mission: to return Aziz to the Eldorado he left behind and save it from the ravages of modern progress. So begins an initiatory journey that takes Aziz, Jean-Pierre, and a disabused aristocrat named Valerie d'Armeray de Villeneuve across a desert both real and mythic, pursuing a vision of happiness as elusive as Irghiz itself.

Biografía del autor:

Didier van Cauwelaert

Didier van Cauwelaert is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Poisson d'Amour, La Vie Interdite, and Rencontre Sous X (forthcoming in English from Other Press). He wrote a libretto that was featured in the recent off-Broadway musical, Amour. He lives in Paris.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Other Press LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1590510860
• ISBN 13: 9781590510865
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224