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J. Kessel. La Rose de Java
1937
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1919, Extrême-Orient. Après avoir parcouru la moitié du monde pour servir en Sibérie, deux lieutenants aviateurs français regagnent leur patrie. Ils sont très jeunes, ardents à vivre vite et fort : alcool, jeu, rixes et femmes. Ils embarquent à Kobé (Japon) sur un vieux cargo hollandais, la Rose de Java, qui doit les mener à Shanghaï. Ils croyaient y trouver quelques jours de repos, mais ils découvrent à bord une jeune femme surnaturellement belle, séquestrée dans une cabine par un vieil Anglais. Qui est cette femme ? Et lequel des deux jeunes gens en fera sauvagement la conquête au péril de sa vie ? Telle est l'histoire que nous conte sans laisser un instant de répit au lecteur, l'un de nos plus grands romanciers de l'aventure.

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Joseph Kessel
Joseph Kessel
Author · 21 books

Joseph Kessel was a French journalist and novelist. He was born in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin. Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France. He studied in Nice and Paris, and took part in the First World War as an aviator. Kessel wrote several novels and books that were later represented in the cinema, notably Belle de Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967). He was also a member of the Académie française from 1962 to 1979. In 1943 he and his nephew Maurice Druon translated Anna Marly's song Chant des Partisans into French from its original Russian. The song became one of the anthems of the Free French Forces. Joseph Kessel died in Avernes, Val-d'Oise. He is buried in the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris.

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