Philippe claudel biography of william hill
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Notes on Contributors
1Christian Auer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Strasbourg. His publications include Luttes et résistances des femmes écossaises, , Paris, L’Harmattan, and Scotland and the Scots A Reader, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg,
2Ian Brown, Professor Emeritus at Kingston University, London, playwright and poet, has been ASLS President and Saltire Society Convener. Published widely on theatre history, cultural praxis and Scottish literature and culture, his most recent volume is History as Theatrical Metaphor: History, Myth and National Identities in Modern Scottish Drama () and poetry collection, Collyshangles in the Canopy ().
3Christian Civardi is Professor Emeritus of British studies at the University of Strasbourg, and a founding member of the Société Française d’Etudes Ecossaises. He has written extensively on Scottish history, society and culture, notably Le Mouvement ouvrier écossais, , P.U.S., ; L’Ecosse depuis , Ophrys, ; L’Ecosse contemporaine, Ellipses, , and translated W. McIlvanney’s Docherty, P. U. de Grenoble,
4Ronald Lyndsay Crawford FRHistS is an Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, with special interests in church history aspects of the Scottish Enli
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Monsieur Linh and His Child is a perfect little book. It&#;s only pages long, but it&#;s exquisitely formed and obviously translated with great care so as to preserve the compassionate tone of the original.
Monsieur Linh is an elderly refugee from Vietnam. His son and daughter-in-law have died in the war.
They set off one morning to work in the paddy fields, with the child, and by evening they had not returned. The old man ran. He was out of breath when he arrived at the rice field. It was nothing but a vast hole, bubbling with water, with the corpse of a disembowelled buffalo lying on one side of the crater, its yoke broken in two like a bit of straw. There was also his son&#;s body, and his son&#;s wife&#;s body, and further away the little girl, her eyes wide open, unharmed and wrapped in a blanket, and beside the child a doll, her own doll, the same size as her, which had had its head blown off by the blast of the bomb. The little girl was ten days old. Her parents had called her Sang diû, which in the local language means &#;mild morning&#;. This was the name they had given her , and then they had died. Monsieur Linh had taken the child. He set off. He decided to leave forever. For the child&#;s sake. (p. 4)
The story begins with M. Linh&#;s journ
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Monsieur Linh abide His Son by Philippe Claudel ()Original French title:La petite missy de Man Linh
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