Au revoir là-haut

15 hrs. 22 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Pierre Lemaitre

Narrator Lora Luganskaya

“Goodbye, Over There Up Above” is Pierre Lemaitre’s novel—one that could be called “The Living and the Dead.” Surviving the First World War, which lasted four long years, was both an enormous happiness and an enormous stroke of luck. So why do the novel’s heroes—Eduard, a painter, and his friend Albert, who miraculously survived the bloody slaughter—envy the fallen, while their impossible dream turns out to be new boots and an ampoule of morphine? Meanwhile, their cold-blooded captain, Henri d’Aulnay-Pradel, effortlessly makes millions off… coffins for reburial of those who fell in this war.

Before us is a fresco-novel, an event-novel, crowned with the Goncourt Prize—a big literary fish in a drought of recent years.

In autumn 2017, Albert Dupontel’s film “Goodbye, Over There Up Above” premiered in Europe to huge success; critics called it “a wonderful film made from an outstanding book.”

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