Name: Fields of Glory
ISBN: 9781860461484

Jean Rouaud

Fields of Glory

Andrew John Kinney

This book won the Prix Goncourt in France, and the translation is very good. A poignant story of a French family looking for the body of an uncle / brother killed in WW1. One of the quotes I liked from this was in the midst of a discussion with an elder of the family of how to contact alien civilizations via radio. To paraphrase, the grandfather says, "Well, if we want them to think well of us, we should simply transmit the complete works of J.S. Bach over and over".

I enjoyed the gentle humor and description of familial affection in this book. By way of full disclosure, I am a confirmed Francophile, so I am inherently inclined to like this one.

Fields of Glory

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