num_pages: 313
description: One night in 1917, five French soldiers, court-martialled for self-inflicted wounds, are pushed into No-man's-land and later found dead. The youngest of the five has a fiancee, Mathilda. This is the story of Mathilda's quest, after the war, to discover what has become of her fiance.
language: French
title: A Very Long Engagement
titlecomplete: A Very Long Engagement
genres: Fiction, Historical, France, War, World War I, Mystery, French Literature, Romance, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 7055
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Prix Interallié
publisher: Harvill Pr