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The Year of the French
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- Nombre de pages544
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-1-59017-686-3
- EAN9781590176863
- Date de parution14/11/2012
- Protection num.Adobe DRM
- Taille3 Mo
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- ÉditeurNYRB Classics
Résumé
Winner of the National Book Critics Award for Fiction This "classic of historical fiction" takes readers to 18th-century Ireland when French troops supported Irish rebels in their struggle for independence from Britain (The Times, London). In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone.
Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before long the insurgency collapsed in the face of a brutal English counterattack. Very few books succeed in registering the sudden terrible impact of historical events; Thomas Flanagan's is one. Subtly conceived, masterfully paced, with multiple narrators and a wide and memorable cast of characters, The Year of the French brings to life peasants and landlords, Protestants and Catholics, along with old and abiding questions of secular and religious commitments, empire, occupation, and rebellion.
It is quite simply a great historical novel. "I haven't so enjoyed a historical novel since The Charterhouse of Parma and War and Peace." - John Leonard, The New York Times
Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before long the insurgency collapsed in the face of a brutal English counterattack. Very few books succeed in registering the sudden terrible impact of historical events; Thomas Flanagan's is one. Subtly conceived, masterfully paced, with multiple narrators and a wide and memorable cast of characters, The Year of the French brings to life peasants and landlords, Protestants and Catholics, along with old and abiding questions of secular and religious commitments, empire, occupation, and rebellion.
It is quite simply a great historical novel. "I haven't so enjoyed a historical novel since The Charterhouse of Parma and War and Peace." - John Leonard, The New York Times
