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L'hiver aux trousses

L'hiver aux trousses

Paperback

Series: Essais - Documents

General Sociology

ISBN10: 2234078903
ISBN13: 9782234078901
Publisher: Stock
Published: May 20 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
WINTER ON YOUR HEELS. A Journey in Eastern Russia

Rights sold to Poland (Dialog)

Cédric Gras's book is an invitation to a delightful exercise in narrative geography. A freezing peregrination in the depths of eastern-most Russia where he spent six weeks travelling through this land with a luminous future in search of a never-ending autumn. Three times now his itinerary has been dictated by a hunt for autumn leaves between 56 and 43 degrees north, between Irkutsk and Vladivostok. Along the way, he stepped back in time and lived alongside the Buryats and the Mandchu who long ago strayed into this land where living there killed you. He listened to the ghosts of a painful past burdened with the secret of a gulag, and exchanged ideas with an ethical population abandoned by the great cycle of history.
Deep in Yakutia, on the banks of the River Amur, at the furthest point on the island of Sakhalin, he followed in the footsteps of Joseph Kessel and Blaise Cendrars, who for a time were also lost in this longed-for El Dorado, pursuing a literature that tolerates anything but narrow-mindedness.

Cédric Gras is 32 and lives in Kiev. He studied geography in Paris, Montreal and New Delhi, and taught in Vladivostok before being involved in setting up the French Institute in Donetsk. He has had three books published by Phébus (Vladivostok, Le Nord, c'est l'Est and Le Coeur des confins).

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