The Gendarme

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: OneWorld Publications
Publisher Place: Oxford
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 294 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Recently Diagnosed With A Brain Tumour, 92 Years Old Emmett's Brain Keeps Having Flashbacks Into His Past.One Thing Sticks In His Memory Of A Girl He Once Knew Who Had One Light Eye And One Dark, And He Desperately Wants To Find Her.

Publishers Description: In this extraordinarily haunting, deeply moving novel, an old man comes face-to-face with the horrors of his past, and sets out to find the love of his life and beg her forgiveness. To those around him, Emmet Conn is a ninety-two-year-old man on the verge of senility. Now, at the end of his life, he suddenly finds himself tormented by dreams of a march across a foreign land, of appalling acts of cruelty, and the anguish of a lost love. But these are no dreams and he is no prisoner. The Gendarme is a unique love story that explores the power of memory, and the ability of people, individually and collectively, to forget. Depicting how love can transcend nationalities and politics, how racism creates divisions where none truly exist, and how the human spirit fights to surviveeven in the face of hopelessness, this is a superbly transcendent novel.

ISBN: 9781851688265