- Prix Goncourt 2004 · Shortlist
Val Paradis
Alain Jaubert (born 1940)
English editions
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In the late 1950s a young seaman, still half lost in boyhood dreams, comes ashore at Valparaíso, near Cape Horn. Famous among sailors for its songs, hillside stairs, old lifts and grim brothels, the port proves a dead end at the edge of the world that tests exile and adventure to breaking point and changes everyone who stays.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 435 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Chile, 1950s
- First published
- 2004 by Gallimard
- Author's age
- 64 when first published
- ISBN
9782070771905 (original)
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