Cat's Grin

by François Maspero

Book Overview

A wise and bitter novel about memory and death. A hat should be tipped to the translator, too.--The New Yorker

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039454305X
• ISBN13: 9780394543055
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 295 Pages

Customer Reviews

Cat's Grin will sneak into your heart

Cat's Grin is an extremely personal and profound look at the Occupation and Liberation of France through the eyes of a boy plowing through both adolesence and this tumultuous time period. Cat (Luc) recalls pre-war France and his family life so precisely that the reader lives it too. As his life begins to unravel, Cat responds in his typical hilarious and wise fashion. He goes on a brave, desperate search for his beloved brother, Antoine, a fighter for the Resistance; leads his fellow schoolboys in paper airplane flying adventures in the Luxembourg gardens; and finally must come to terms with the unendurable impacts of the war. With writing that is both stark and eloquent, Cat's Grin will sneak into your heart and stay there for a long time.