My account About us Contact My purchase 0 Beginning Books Stationery Games News Textbooks -5% TABA-TABA DEVILLE, PATRICK Editorial: ANAGRAM Year of edition: 2021 Matter Memories ISBN: 978-84-339-8101-1 Pages: 432 Binding: Rustic € 21.90 € 20.81 VAT included In stock Add to my cart Add to Favorites Synopsis Patrick Deville explores the history of his family and through it explains France and the world. At the beginning of the sixties of the last century, in the Loire estuary, in an old lazaret converted into a psychiatric hospital, a boy observes a madman who, sitting on some steps and accompanying himself with a slow rocking of his body, chants: «Taba- Taba-Taba ... "That boy is Patrick Deville and his father is the director of the asylum. Starting from that childhood memory, the writer embarks on a journey through family history and that of France that takes us to the great-grandmother who arrived in the mid-19th century from Cairo, the grandfather who lived through the Great War, the lonely aunt, the France of Napoleon III, the expansion of the colonial empire, the construction of the Suez and Panama canals, the social upheavals of the 1930s, the period of the Popular Front, the Nazi occupation, the Vichy regime, liberation ... Memory, the past, family ghosts, personal trips and the events that transformed France are the threads with which the author weaves this exceptional narration. Deville started in 2004 with Pura Vida a series of "real novels" in which, traveling through the five continents, he reconstructs historical characters and events ... Other titles from that series have also been published in Anagrama: Ecuatoria, Peste & Cholera and Live. Taba-Taba joins that cycle, in this case focusing on family history. And, starting from the particular, it goes through the history of the country and the world ... the personal journeys and events that transformed France are the threads with which the author weaves this exceptional narrative. Deville started in 2004 with Pura Vida a series of "real novels" in which, traveling through the five continents, he reconstructs historical characters and events ... Other titles from that series have also been published in Anagrama: Ecuatoria, Peste & Cholera and Live. Taba-Taba joins that cycle, in this case focusing on family history. And, starting from the particular, it goes through the history of the country and the world ... the personal journeys and events that transformed France are the threads with which the author weaves this exceptional narrative. Deville started in 2004 with Pura Vida a series of "real novels" in which, traveling through the five continents, he reconstructs historical characters and events ... Other titles from that series have also been published in Anagrama: Ecuatoria, Peste & Cholera and Live. Taba-Taba joins that cycle, in this case focusing on family history. And, starting from the particular, it goes through the history of the country and the world ... Other titles in this series have also been published in Anagrama: Ecuatoria, Peste & Cholera and Viva. Taba-Taba joins that cycle, in this case focusing on family history. And, starting from the particular, it goes through the history of the country and the world ... Other titles in this series have also been published in Anagrama: Ecuatoria, Peste & Cholera and Viva. Taba-Taba joins that cycle, in this case focusing on family history. And, starting from the particular, it goes through the history of the country and the world ... Artículos relacionados -5% MIRAD LAS AVES DEL CIELO LUBIENSKI, STANISLAW En stock 21,00 € 19,95 € Comprar -5% BEATE Y SERGE KLARSFELD DORANGE, SYLVAIN / BRESSON, PASCAL En stock 25,00 € 23,75 € Comprar -5% GORDA Y FEA HÉBERT, MARIE-NÖELLE En stock 17,00 € 16,15 € Comprar -5% UNA VIDA DE CONTRASTES MITFORD, DIANA En stock 25,00 € 23,75 € Comprar -5% RELACIONES Y SOLEDADES SCHNITZLER, ARTHUR En stock 16,00 € 15,20 € Comprar -5% 1000 AÑOS DE ALEGRÍAS Y PENAS WEIWEI, AI En stock 27,90 € 26,51 € Comprar Otros libros del autor -5% ECUATORIA DEVILLE, PATRICK En stock 19,90 € 18,91 € Comprar -5% EL CATALEJO DEVILLE, PATRICK Disponible en 2 semanas 7,50 € 7,13 € CONTACTO (+34) 618304819 info@libreriagil.es Formulario de contacto PÁGINAS LEGALES Aviso legal Protección de datos Condiciones de venta Política de Cookies CUSTOMER SUPPORT About us Special orders This activity has been subsidized by the Ministry of Culture 2021 © Gil Bookstore . All Rights Reserved | Trevenque Group This website uses its own and third-party cookies to improve our services by analyzing your browsing habits. You can get more information here or change the settings . Accept cookies