In English
Goncourt 2012 · Shortlist
Plague and Cholera
Peste & Choléra
Patrick Deville · 55 when first published
Novel · 292 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:The life of Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss-born disciple of Louis Pasteur who spent most of his life in Indochina, where he discovered the plague bacillus and pursued every kind of research.