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The Lost Sailors

✍ Scribed by Jean-Claude Izzo; Howard Curtis

Book ID: 109070347
Publisher: Europa
Year: 2013
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 144 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781609451714

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✦ Synopsis

From one of France's best-known authors comes this evocative meditation on the human comedy. A freighter is impounded in the port of Marseilles when its owners declare bankruptcy. On board, the men are divided: wait for the money owed them--money that might never come--or accept their fate and abandon ship? This may be Captain Abdul Aziz's last commission and he is determined to save his charge and stand by his men. Diamantis, his second-in-command, is in search of a woman he has never stopped loving and who may now be living in Marseilles. In these close quarters charged with physical and emotional tension, each of these marooned sailors' life stories begins to resemble a chapter in the complex, colorful, and tragic story of the Mediterranean Sea itself--rich with romance, legend, passion and drama.

The Lost Sailors is a richly textured and bittersweet tribute to Mediterranean life. It is the novel in which Jean-Claude Izzo most completely...

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