Strange gardens
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Strange gardens
（Penguin fiction）（Penguin books）
Penguin Books, 2002
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Effroyables jardins
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"First published in France by Editions Joëlle Losfeld as Effroyables jardins, 2000. This translation first published in Great Britain by Viking, 2001"--T.p. verso
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Description
The novel of war, childhood, courage and memory that has taken France by storm. A country that has been occupied during war has its secrets, and France is full of them. Strange Gardens tells the touching story of two generations coming to terms with each other, as a father's story is slowly unfurled to his son. Finally the boy understands his father's traumatic past, and the courage and humour he has used to disguise it. Without a trace of sentimentality, this powerful fable tells an extraordinary story of memory and forgetting
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