Vango - I. Between Heaven and Earth.
Adventure, mystery, intrigue and love: the great new novel by Tim de Fombelle, author of Tobit.
Adventure, mystery, intrigue and love: the great new novel by Tim de Fombelle, author of Tobit.
Paris 1935. At the foot of the cathedral of Notre-Dame, forty men are waiting to be ordained. Among them is Vango, nineteen years, a past shrouded in mystery and a future as uncertain, because - just before the ceremony begins - the police entered the church square to stop it. But what crime he committed? Vango
does not know it and escape by climbing up the facade and towers of the cathedral. The police, however, is not the only one interested in the boy, a young woman anxiously followed the flight as a suspicious looking man who opens fire on him. Escaped arrest, the boy tries to get in touch with his mentor, Father Jean, and discovered to his being accused of the assassination of the priest.
Who story behind Vango, Vango and who is in reality? Growing up in the Aeolian Islands, where he had mysteriously arrived in three years together his nurse, "Mademoiselle," who loved him like a son, their past is not known to him much either. Vango revolve around historical figures such as Hugo Eckener, captain of the Graf Zeppelin, and other fancy like Zephyr, the head of the convent monaco Secret of Alicudi.Poi is Ethel, Scotland, rich, young and deeply in love with him. Finally there are the enemies, terrible, ruthless, one for all: Stalin! Just him, the Soviet dictator himself.
Timothee De Fombelle was born in Paris in 1973.
After being a teacher of literature, he devoted himself to the theater early. In 1990 he created a company, for which he writes lyrics of which I personally supervised and directed. Since then, he never stopped writing for the theater. One of his play, Le Phare, written just eighteen, was staged in France and then translated and performed in Russia, Lithuania, Poland and Canada. His text Je danse toujours (Actes Sud) was read at the opening of the Festival d'Avignon in 2002. Vango. Between Heaven and Earth is his next novel after the success of Tobias. An inch and a half later and the eyes of Elisha and You are my world.
New release in February for San Paolo Edizioini.
arrives on the shelves of all libraries Italian Vango , by the talented author of Tobit , Timothée De Fombelle that this book has already sold over 80,000 copies in Italy and worldwide.
The book was a great success in France where he risscosso awards and acclaim by audiences and critics alike ... Currently there is wait for the release here from us.
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Title: Vango. Between sky and earth
Original title: Vango I. Entre ciel et terre
Author: Timothée de Fombelle
Data: February 2011, 400 p., bound
Publisher: San Paolo Edizioni
Translation: Maria Bastanzetti
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