/ Lead title The international prize-winning bestseller, from a hugely popular writer dubbed 'the darling of the booksellers" by the French press. 'A magnificent fable about the blindness of war.' Elle / Winner of the hugely prestigious Prix de Goncourt des Lyceens -- a French counterpart to the Man Booker in terms of the effect on sales, except voted for by readers / Over 100,000 copies sold in France to date / Winner of the Prix des Libraires 2003 (a prize voted for solely by booksellers) / Competition: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, V.M. Manfredi, Homer, the films of Kurosawa, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Laurent Gaude is a French novelist and playwright. Born in 1972, he has written five plays and two novels, achieving great success and acclaim throughout Europe. Death of an Ancient King, his first work to be published in English, was a massive bestseller in his native France, and won two major prizes: the Prix de Goncourt des Lyceens and the Prix des Libraires -- a prize voted for by hundreds of French-speaking booksellers from across France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada. He lives in Paris.
'Like a magician, Gaude boils down to a magic potion the raw emotion of our most deeply-rooted fears and desires.' Le Monde 'As in the works of Homer, passion ignites a war without end. This tour de force gives vital new life to an ancient form: the tragic epic.' Le Nouvel Observateur 'A magnificent fable about the blindness of war!Gaude's pen transforms battles into ballets, at once monstrous and sublime; you can almost taste the earth and the blood.' Elle
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