Sebastien Japrisot, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator Plume Books $14 (327p) ISBN 978-0-452-27297-2
In 1917, a crippled young French woman searches for her fiance who was left to die on the front lines of WWI. (Sept.)
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Sebastien Japrisot, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (327p) ISBN 978-0-374-28335-3
After a court martial in January 1917, five Frenchmen convicted of self-mutilation (in order to avoid combat in WW I) are dragged along the network of zigzagging trenches to the improbably named frontline trench, ``Bingo Crepuscule.'' What exactly...
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Sebastien Japrisot, Author, Ros Schwartz, Translator Plume Books $13.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-452-28162-2
Defying common sense and delighting the senses, this soft-core erotic mystery by French writer Japrisot is being republished in English under a new title, to take advantage of the popularity of his A Very Long Engagement. Eight female narrators...
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Sebastien Japrisot, Author, Roz Schwartz, Translator Crown Publishing Group (NY) $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-56940-5
Japrisot ( The Sleeping Car Murders ) has set his sexy, brash novel cum murder mystery--a bestseller in France--around the time of WW II, its comic strip/slam-bang plot line and indefatigable hero drawing inspiration from the OuLiPo literary...
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