Leon and Louise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781908323132)

Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when L on Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the two lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy L on's marriage and by the German invasion of France. In occupied Paris during the Second World War, where L on struggles against the abhorrent tasks imposed upon him by the SS, and the wilds of Africa, where Louise confronts the hardships of her primitive environment, they battle the vicissitudes of history and the passage of time for the survival of their love.

Author: Alex Capus
ISBN-10: 1908323132
ISBN-13: 9781908323132
Publisher: Haus Pub.
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2012
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2012 pg. 29
Library Journal 11/01/2012 pg. 61
Booklist 11/01/2012 pg. 23
Shelf Awareness 11/09/2012