Romain Gary fue un novelista francés cuya distintiva voz narrativa y profundas perspicacias psicológicas iluminan las complejidades de la identidad, el exilio y la búsqueda de sentido. Sus obras se adentran en el intrincado tapiz de las relaciones humanas y las ambigüedades morales, a menudo mezclando hilos autobiográficos con la ficción. La genialidad literaria de Gary reside en su habilidad para crear personajes que son a la vez vulnerables y resilientes, explorando cuestiones existenciales con un notable estilo lingüístico. Sigue siendo célebre por su capacidad única de atraer a los lectores a mundos ricos e inolvidables.
Con La vida ante sí, Romain Gary obtuvo, bajo el seudónimo Émile Ajar, su segundo Goncourt, un honor único ya que este premio solo puede concederse una vez. Una vieja prostituta judía, superviviente de Auschwitz, regenta en el barrio parisino de Belleville una casa donde crecen los hijos no deseados de las prostitutas. Momo es uno de ellos. A través de su mirada infantil, con grandes dosis de ironía y ternura, el lector descubre el mundo sórdido que le rodea y la decrepitud de la mujer que le ha hecho de madre. Uno de los libros más interesantes de la literatura francesa contemporánea de las últimas décadas.
A New York Times Notable Book 2018 'A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most original writers' Independent 'The Kites is a novel touched from beginning to end with grace, a great saga about the innate dignity of love that succeeds in the feat of being funny and poetic, tender and sharp, committed and fierce, with a touch of brilliance in the art of dialogue' Muriel Barbery, author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog A quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old and lives with his uncle, a kindly, eccentric creator of elaborate kites. One day, sitting in a strawberry field, Ludo meets the beautiful young Polish aristocrat Lila. And so begins Ludo's lifelong adventure of love and longing for Lila, who only begins to return his feelings just as Europe descends into the devastation of World War 2. After Poland and France fall, Lila and Ludo are separated. Ludo's friends in the village must find their own ways of resisting: the local restaurateur who is dedicated above all to France's haute cuisine, a Jewish brothel madam who sleeps with her unwitting enemies and Ludo, who cycles past the Nazis every day, passing on messages for the French Resistance - thinking always of Lila.
"The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary follows Morel, a Frenchman who survives the Holocaust - a survival he credits to imagining elephants roaming the wilderness. Once free, he travels to French Equatorial Africa with the aim of saving his beloved elephants from being hunted and killed for meat and ivory. Realizing his more conventional tactics are not eliciting a response, however, he turns militant, and the story takes a dark turn. This novel examines the corrosive force of human desensitization, and it is one of the first classic ecological novels of our time." -- Provided by publisher
"Promise at Dawn begins as the story of a mother's sacrifice: alone and poor, she fights fiercely to give her son the very best. Romain Gary chronicles his childhood in Russia, Poland, and on the French Riveria; he recounts his adventurous life as a young man fighting for France in World War II. But above all he tells the story of the love for his mother that was his very life, their secret and private planet, their wonderland born out of a mother's murmur into a child's ear, a promise whispered at dawn of future triumphs and greatness, of justice and love“--Provided by publisher.
›Das Gewitter‹ präsentiert unveröffentlichte Erzählungen von Romain Gary, die zentrale Themen seiner Romane wie Doppel-Ich, Flucht und die Verbindung von Liebe und Tod behandeln. Gary spielt mit Masken und zeigt seine Leidenschaft für existentielle Freiheit, während er seine Leser verwirrt und bezaubert.
