Dear Madame T.
Publisher
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Métailié
Parution date
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EAN
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9782864246879
Number of pages
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267
Description
***19 weeks on L’Express bestseller list***
***135,000 copies sold in France in four months***
***Translated sample available***
A man travels the world; wherever he goes, he writes to the mysterious “Madame T.,” whom he has not met but already loves. With humor, passion, and a deep grasp of humanity, the traveler tells his imaginary lover compelling stories of his casual encounters and tales he has heard of explorers who came before him.
Bernard Giraudeau spent years as a sailor in the French navy and, later, as a traveler in some of the most remote corners of the world. He relates his adventures in Dear Madame T., a tale that explores the breadth of the world—and the depth of a man’s soul. He imagines himself in conversation with Madame T., sharing his travel stories, his fears, his joys, and the elation of discovering a new shore for the first time. He writes first from Brazil on a trip on the Great Transamargura—the transbitterness—a road that links the poverty of the northeast to the misery of the Amazon basin. Along the way, he becomes an advocate for the native tribes being destroyed by modern civilization. He goes to the Khmer temples of Cambodia and climbs the Chilean Andes. Periodically he returns to Paris to search for his beloved Madame T. and to perform on the stage of the Comédie Française. Each of these intervals, however, is only a prelude to a new departure. As the novel and the journeys continue, the traveler reinvents his life and the lives of the people he meets, creating a fragile equilibrium between legend and reality, past and present.
Author
Bernard Giraudeau : Born in 1947 in La Rochelle, France, Bernard Giraudeau joined the French navy at 16. Seven years later he was admitted to the Drama Conservatory in Paris and graduated first in classical and modern acting. Since 2001, after a prestigious career as an actor, director, and producer of a documentary of his travels, Giraudeau has devoted his life to writing. His novel, Les Dames de nage (Éditions Métailié, 2007), sold 200,000 copies in France and has been translated by Edizioni E/O in Italy and Chez Recordo in Brazil.
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