Silbermann

Jacques de Lacretelle

"My situation has become impossible. I leave tomorrow for America...The Frenchmen for France have won. Think of it. One less Jew among them!"

This novel, set in Paris in the 1920s, follows the friendship between two fifteen-year-old schoolboys: one, a Gentile (the narrator), and the other, a Jew.

4 3/4 x 7, 168 pages, Paperback, $10.95, ISBN 1-885586-56-6

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About the Author

Jacques de Lacretelle (1888-1985) was a novelist, journalist, and director of Le Figaro. Silbermann was the winner of the 2005 French-American Foundation Translation award.

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