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Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Original title: Nord

first published 1960 Gallimard, 1960 paperback

Collection Folio — book 851

"In this novel, Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan) offers us a vivid chronicle of a desperate man's frantic flight from France in the final months of World War II. Accompanied by his wife, their cat, and an actor friend, our autobiographical narrator Ferdinand leaves Paris for Baden-Baden (a World War II hideaway for wealthy Germans), is then sent to a bombed-out...

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This book in English

Ralph Manheim 1 printing we hold · 1996 · Dalkey Archive Press

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North paperback · 1996 · Dalkey Archive Press · 454 pages
Nord paperback · 1976 · French & European Pubns · 9780828836258
North edition · 1976 · Penguin Books · 454 pages
North edition · 1972 · Bodley Head · 454 pages
Nord paperback · 1972 · Schoenhofs Foreign Books · 625 pages
Nord paperback · 1960 · Gallimard · 9782070213122

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