- Prix Goncourt 2008 · Shortlist
La Beauté du monde
“The Beauty of the World” (title translated by AI)
Michel Le Bris (born 1944)
English editions
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In the 1920s Martin Johnson, once Jack London's shipmate, pioneered wildlife film with his glamorous, fearless wife Osa, model for the King Kong heroine. In 1938 the novice writer Winnie is hired to write the life of Osa, now widowed, drinking and faded but still haunted by the world's beauty. From Jazz Age New York and Harlem to Kenya's splendour, the novel revives an era's fever.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 678 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Nature (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, Kenya, 1920s–1930s
- First published
- 2008 by Grasset
- Author's age
- 64 when first published
- ISBN
9782246650911 (original)