num_pages: 376
description: It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestling with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts – and none of them ready to fight. The second volume in Sartre’s wartime Roads to Freedom trilogy, The Reprieve cuts between locations and characters to build an impressionistic collage of the hopes, fears and self-deception of an entire continent as it blinkers itself against the imminent threat of war.
language: English
title: The Reprieve
titlecomplete: The Reprieve (The Roads to Freedom, #2)
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, French Literature, Classics, France, Philosophy, War, Roman, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 2692
places: Paris, Munich (München)
series: Les Chemins de la Liberté
publisher: Penguin