Éric Vuillard

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• La guerre des pauvres

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  International Booker 2021 · Shortlist

  The War of the Poor

  La guerre des pauvres

  Éric Vuillard · 51 when first published

  Novel · 80 pages · Historical, Politics

  Translated by Mark Polizzotti

  AIAI-generated summary:Between 1524 and 1526 the common people of the Holy Roman Empire rise in revolt; a short, burning narrative follows Thomas Müntzer, a religious leader of the rebels, and sets the uprising among the rebellions of the early Reformation.

• L'Ordre du jour

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  Goncourt 2017 · ★ Winner

  The Order of the Day

  L'Ordre du jour

  Éric Vuillard · 49 when first published

  Nonfiction · 144 pages · Historical, Politics, War

  AIAI-generated summary:On 20 February 1933, twenty-four of Germany’s leading industrialists are summoned by Göring to the Reichstag president’s palace and asked to fund the Nazi party before the coming elections.