{"product_id":"on-leave-paperback-2","title":"On Leave - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Anselme\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable war\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eOn Leave \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it was never reprinted, it disappeared from view. With no outcome to the war in sight, its power to disturb was too much to bear.\u003cbr\u003e Through David Bellos's translation, this lost classic has been rediscovered. Spare, forceful, and moving, it describes a week in the lives of a sergeant, a corporal, and an infantryman, each home on leave in Paris. What these soldiers have to say can't be heard, can't even be spoken; they find themselves strangers in their own city, unmoored from their lives. Full of sympathy and feeling, informed by the many hours Daniel Anselme spent talking to conscripts in Paris, \u003ci\u003eOn Leave \u003c\/i\u003eis a timeless evocation of what the history books can never record: the shame and the terror felt by men returning home from war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Anselme \u003c\/b\u003ewas born Daniel Rabinovitch in 1927, and adopted the name Anselme while serving in the French Resistance with his father. Anselme traveled widely as a journalist, and was known as a raconteur and a habitué of Left Bank cafés. A vocal protester of France's war with Algeria, he addressed the war in \u003ci\u003eOn Leave\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), his first novel. Anselme published a second novel, \u003ci\u003eRelations\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1964; ran the journal \u003ci\u003eLes Cahiers de Mai\u003c\/i\u003e from 1968 to 1974; and was one of the leaders of Solidarity Radio in Paris in 1981-82. He published a semiautobiographical account of his wartime experiences called \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Companion\u003c\/i\u003e in 1984, and died five years later in Paris. \u003cb\u003eDavid Bellos\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, where he is also a professor of French and comparative literature. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIs That a Fish in Your Ear?\u003c\/i\u003e (Faber, 2011). Bellos has won many awards for his translations, including the Man Booker International Prize for translation. He received the Prix Goncourt for his biography of Georges Perec and has also written biographies of Jacques Tati and Romain Gary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.3 x 4.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47254536454393,"sku":"9780865478251","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/l9ZmoUEpuE9780865478251_f189e125-9edd-4b67-b916-67cbf33b50d7.webp?v=1768713218","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/on-leave-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}