Michel Déon
Birth date: August 04, 1919
Michel Déon's Books
This book is a collection of some very good short stories of some of the best contemporary French authors. Carefully selected and translated. Besides Sartre, Camus and Beckett (and I wish there was a place for Simone de Beauvoir too) I really liked Boris Vian's Les Fourmis from his book with the sam...
This epic coming-of-age story set in prewar Europe is considered a modern literary classic. It has been translated into English for the first time since its publication in France in 1975... Full review at Wordhorse http://www.wordhorse.co.uk/review-the-foundling-boy-by-michel-deon.html#.Ux9MbF50rVQ
Coming December from Gallic Books Thank you to the publisher for the review copy. It is 1919. On a summer’s night in Normandy, a newborn baby is left in a basket outside the home of Albert and Jeanne Arnaud. The childless couple take the foundling in, name him Jean, and decide to raise him as th...