North
Contributors: Ralph Manheim (Translator)
Edition: Second edition
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: March 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9781564781420
Subjects: Modern fiction; Historical fiction; French Novel And Short Story; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary; Literature & Fiction; Autobiographical fiction; Adventure stories; World War, 1939-1945
Description: "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 Berlin, and finally leaves for Denmark in search of the gold he had stashed there prior to the war.

With the Third Reich in ruins and the Allied armies on Ferdinand's heels, North combines documentary realism with hallucinatory images, capturing the chaos of war and its toll on both victim and victimizer."--BOOK JACKET.