Les princes vagabonds

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Michael Chabon: Les princes vagabonds (French language, 2010, R. Laffont)

[texte imprimé] /, 203 pages

French language

Published Feb. 11, 2010 by R. Laffont.

ISBN:
978-2-221-11111-6
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OCLC Number:
690644129

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4 stars (1 review)

Presqu'un clin d'oeil à Jules Verne, pour la présentation et la formule, fournissant un bon récit d'aventures situées dans le Moyen Âge de l'an 950 au Caucase. [SDM].

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A classic adventure tale

4 stars

I hadn't read any Michael Chabon novels before and chose this one purely for its historical setting as I hoped it would fit nicely alongside a couple of other recent reads: Ibn Fadlan's travel memoirs of Western Asia in the Viking era and Edouardo Albert's humorous Conrad Monk And The Great Heathen Army adventure tale. Gentlemen Of The Road is closer to Conrad Monk in style, although not as funny, however it does feel based in a solid historical reality and I could appreciate that Chabon had certainly done his research.

The story is a classic adventure tale which gallops across medieval Khazaria at such a pace that I did sometimes find myself left behind. At its heart is a wonderful friendship between two men, apparently as different in physical appearance and temperament as it is possible to be, yet perfectly suited to each other and utterly loyal. They get …