Description
Page et Plume is honored to welcome author Akira Mizubayashi (whose magnificent "Âme brisée" has just been published in an illustrated version) for the publication of his novel "La forêt de flammes et d'ombres" by Gallimard.
THE BOOK
Tokyo, 1944: a young student with a passion for art meets his future life companions, a painter and a violinist, before being sent off to war in Manchuria. When he returns mutilated and broken, he doubts whether he can still create, while love and art become his last refuges. A moving novel about war, friendship and the power of creation in the face of a violent world.
THE AUTHOR
Japanese writer and academic Akira Mizubayashi has written several books in French. He was awarded the Prix des Libraires 2020 for his novel Âme brisée.
