by Romain Gary
And I, too, will end by naming the very real André Trocmé and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, for Romain Gary is right: you can’t say any better than that.
Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Copyright © 1980 by Éditions Gallimard
Translation copyright © 2017 by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
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Originally published in French as Les cerfs-volants by Éditions Gallimard
Manufactured in the United States of America
First published as a New Directions Book in 2017
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gary, Romain, author. | Richmond Mouillot, Miranda, translator.
Title: The kites / by Romain Gary ; translated from the French by Miranda
Richmond Mouillot.
Other titles: Cerfs-volants. English
Description: New York : New Directions, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017014029 | ISBN 9780811226547 (acid-free paper)
Classification: LCC PQ2613.A58 C413 2017 | DDC 843/.912--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017014029
eISBN: 9780811226554
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