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The roots of heaven
- Title
- The roots of heaven / Romain Gary ; translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin ; introduction by David Bellos.
- Author
- Gary, Romain
- Publication
- Jaffrey, New Hampshire : David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 2018.
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-1527 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xxi, 434 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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." --
- Series Statement
- Verba Mundi, international literature series ; 30
- Uniform Title
- Racines du ciel. English
- Verba Mundi ; 30.
- Alternative Title
- Racines du ciel.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Note
- "Orignially published in French in 1956 by Editions Galimard"
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1527
- ISBN
- 9781567926262
- 1567926266
- LCCN
- 2018015842
- OCLC
- 1035770084
- Author
- Gary, Romain, author.
- Title
- The roots of heaven / Romain Gary ; translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin ; introduction by David Bellos.
- Publisher
- Jaffrey, New Hampshire : David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Verba Mundi, international literature series ; 30Verba Mundi ; 30.
- Local Note
- TRANSLATION OF MID-20TH CENTURY FRENCH NOVEL. REPRINT OF 1958 ED.
- Added Author
- Griffin, Jonathan, 1906-1990, translator.Bellos, David, writer of introduction.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1527