On Leave

Daniel Anselme

Original title: On leave

earliest edition we have, 2014 Penguin Books, Limited, 2015 224 pages

"When On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it was never reprinted, it disappeared from view. With no outcome to the war in sight, its power to disturb was too m...

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David Bellos 1 printing we hold · 2014 · Faber and Faber Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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On Leave edition · 2015 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 224 pages · 9780865478251
On Leave edition · 2015 · Penguin Books, Limited · 224 pages · 9780141977546
On Leave edition · 2014 · Penguin Books, Limited · 224 pages · 9780141393872
On Leave edition · 2014 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141977553
On leave edition · 2014 · Faber and Faber Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 198 pages · 9780865478954

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