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Traveller bananas, or The Sundays of Tahiti / Georges Simenon, translated by Laura Guarino Frausin - Milano: Adelphi, [1996] - 180 p. 22 cm. - Euro08:00
The author
Oscar Donadieu, sensitive and introverted young man, the last heir of a powerful clan of owners of La Rochelle, dreaming of lands in Tahiti 'to immerse themselves in nature, live face to face with her and her alone, giving up the comforts of civilization. " Yet, already during the trip, someone warned: "Maybe would better not get off the ship and go back straight to France. " Thus avoids becoming one of those who contemptuously call the local "tourists from bananas," Wreck of tropical life wandering between sad drunk girls easy, squalid and sordid intrigues nights. With pride, Donadieu think these things can happen to others, not him. But the reality is sticky, and the fate ignores geography. And despite the backdrop of palms and bright light, the grim fate of the family Donadieu will soon be fulfilled, in this novel of escape impossible.Accomplished in Porquerolles in 1936 after a world tour that lasted five months, bananas Traveller was released in 1938.
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