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Of Illustrious Men

A grieving son explores his father's identity as a quiet family man, traveling salesman, and World War II hero, and forms an understanding about human greatness in both war and peace times. By the Goncourt prize-winning author of Fields of Glory.

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  • "Des hommes illustres"
  • "Des hommes illustres"@it

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  • "A grieving son explores his father's identity as a quiet family man, traveling salesman, and World War II hero, and forms an understanding about human greatness in both war and peace times. By the Goncourt prize-winning author of Fields of Glory."@en
  • "A son attempts to answer a riddle faced by many a man, who exactly was my father? As he sifts through his childhood memories, the reader is given a detailed portrait of French bourgeois life. By the author of Fields of Glory."
  • "Hailed as a masterpiece, Jean Rouaud's first novel, Fields of Glory, was awarded France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, and sold over a million copies worldwide. Of Illustrious Men establishes as fact what the first novel promised -- that Rouaud is a writer of remarkable power, subtlety, and originality. Lovingly set in the same region as Fields of Glory, the novel is about the author's father, Joseph, and a traveling salesman who died at forty-one and left a family in shock behind him. In the mind of the grieving eleven-year-old son -- too young to have really known him -- his father was a hero, a warrior, a legend of the Resistance during World War II. But the narrator is no longer that eleven-year-old boy; he is a mature and gifted writer. And though he may still ache for the loss of his father, he also knows that Joseph's illustriousness can be found not only in the heady days of wartime glory but in moments of domestic tranquility. Of Illustrious Men evokes scenes of both war and peace with exquisite beauty and understated and poignant tenderness."@en
  • "A grieving son explores his father's identity as a quiet family man, and World War II hero, and forms an understanding about human greatness in both war and peace time."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Autobiographical fiction"@en
  • "Autobiographical fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Powieść francuska"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "Oameni ilustri"
  • "Des Hommes illustres"
  • "Oameni ilustri : roman"
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  • "Illustere voorgangers"
  • "Des hommes illustres : (roman)"
  • "Hadrians Villa in unserem Garten : Roman"
  • "Des hommes illustres [roman]"
  • "Of illustrious men a novel"
  • "Fermi così!"
  • "Fermi così!"@it
  • "Hombres ilustres"@es
  • "Kuuluisia miehiä"@fi
  • "Of Illustrious Men"@en
  • "Des hommes illustrés"
  • "Des hommes illustres : [roman]"
  • "Des hommes illustres : Les champs d'honneur v.2"
  • "Des hommes illustres : roman"
  • "Of illustrious men"@en
  • "Of illustrious men"
  • "Of illustrious men : a novel"@en
  • "Of illustrious men : a novel"
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