{"product_id":"on-leave-9780865478251","title":"On Leave","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable war\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eOn Leave \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it was never reprinted, it disappeared from view. With no outcome to the war in sight, its power to disturb was too much to bear.\u003cbr\u003e Through David Bellos's translation, this lost classic has been rediscovered. Spare, forceful, and moving, it describes a week in the lives of a sergeant, a corporal, and an infantryman, each home on leave in Paris. What these soldiers have to say can't be heard, can't even be spoken; they find themselves strangers in their own city, unmoored from their lives. Full of sympathy and feeling, informed by the many hours Daniel Anselme spent talking to conscripts in Paris, \u003ci\u003eOn Leave \u003c\/i\u003eis a timeless evocation of what the history books can never record: the shame and the terror felt by men returning home from war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865478251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.30h x 4.60w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/21\/2015 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Daniel Anselme","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36645409423516,"sku":"9780865478251","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_33feff94-9369-46a1-99e4-183aa9f5a8e0.jpg?v=1603861050","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/on-leave-9780865478251","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}