num_pages: 372
description: "Well, I finally got an idea. When he fails, do like me: think about free elephant ride through Africa for hundreds and hundreds of wonderful animals that nothing could be built—either a wall or a fence of barbed wire—passing large open spaces and crush everything in its path, and destroying everything—while they live, nothing is able to stop them—what freedom and! And even when they are no longer alive, who knows, perhaps continue to race elsewhere still free. So you begin to torment your claustrophobia, barbed wire, reinforced concrete, complete materialism imagine herds of elephants of freedom, follow them with his eyes never left them on their run and will see you soon feel better ... "For the novel The Roots of Heaven, Gary received the Prix Goncourt for fiction. Translated and republished in many countries around the world, the novel was finally published in Bulgarian. A film version by John Huston starring Juliette Gréco, Errol Flynn, and Howard Trevard was released in 1958.
language: English
title: The Roots of Heaven
titlecomplete: The Roots of Heaven
genres: 20th Century, Africa, French Literature, Novels, Literature, Chad, Roman, Classics, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 2059
places: Chad
awards: name: گنکو, awardedAt: -441820800000
name: Prix Goncourt
publisher: Simon & Schuster