Operation Rimbaud - Softcover

Godbout, Jacques

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ISBN 10: 1897151225 ISBN 13: 9781897151228

Verlag: Cormorant Books, 2008

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The year is 1967.
Michel Larochelle - a Jesuit, an agnostic, and a spy - meets with Haile Selassie - Emperor of Ethiopia, King of kings, Lion of Judah - in a luxury suite at Montreal's Windsor Hotel. Larochelle has been asked to perform a task in the service of Selassie, a secret mission dubbed "Operation Rimbaud." He expects his latest job to be unusual, but quickly learns that what he's being asked to undertake is closer to remarkable. The Emperor claims there are within his kingdom artifacts of incredible power and significance: the Tablets of the Law, the fabled pair of stone carvings bearing the Ten Commandments, the actual word of God. Selassie would like Larochelle to steal them.
What follows is Larochelle's journey into an exotic land, in the midst of an incipient revolution - a wave of reform meant to bring Ethiopia into the 20th century, with political uprisings that threaten Haile Selassie's decades-long reign, set against the worldwide cultural upheaval challenging the very rules embodied by the tablets.
Larochelle, too, is caught in the turmoil. The greatest challenge he must face lies not in the forces intent on: claiming the tablets for themselves, but in reconciling the actions he takes, the passions he indulges, and his service to a Church and God he no longer believes in.

Biograf�a del autor:

Jacques Godbout was born in Montreal and obtained an MA from the University of Montreal. He is an author who has written numerous fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1958 and is also an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and scriptwriter. Patricia Claxton was the first president of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada. She has received two Governor General's Awards for Translation, the first in 1987, for her translation of Gabrielle Roy's Enchantment and Sorrow, and the second in 1999, for her translation of Francois Ricard's biography of Roy.

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