Si loin de Babylone
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- Jennifer Johnston (Écrivain)
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"What's your name?
- Jeremiah
- Why?
- What do you mean why? It's my name so it is!
- God help us. It's no exactely a typical peasant name."
He leaned over and pinched my ear
"Slave.
- Alexander...
- Don't be crazy. As if I didn't know. It's as bad as mine. I'll call you Alec.
- No one else does
- So much better. You can call me Jerry. Everyone else does. Bargain?
- Bargain."
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J'ai lu ce livre pour mon cours de littérature étrangère et j'en suis contente. L'histoire est assez belle, les personnages bien écrits et la fin plutôt touchante. La récurrence de certaines phrases ainsi que de la comptine (How many miles to Babylon...) crée un effet agréable.
Je le conseille, même si ce n'est pas le livre à lire quand on débute la lecture en VO.
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Date de sortie
Si loin de Babylone
- France : 2011-12-07 - Poche (Français)
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Titres alternatifs
- How Many Miles to Babylon? - Anglais
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Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together, and whose whole lives lay ahead of them.
When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. On the fields of Flanders they find themselves standing together, but once again divided: as officer and enlisted man.
And it is there, surronded by mud and chaos and death, that one of them makes a fateful decision, with consequences that will test their friendship and loyalty to breaking point.
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