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Book · 1960

Promise at Dawn

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Maternal devotion Bildungsroman Coming of age through war Historical journey Exile and rootlessness Tender resilience

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Release
1960
Pages
374 pages

Synopsis

'Promise at Dawn' begins as the story of a mother's sacrifice. Alone and poor, she fights fiercely to give her son the very best. Gary chronicles his childhood with her in Russia, Poland, and on the French Riviera. And he recounts his adventurous life as a young man fighting for France in the Second World War. But above all, he tells the story of the love for his mother that was his very life, their secret and private planet, their wonderland "born out of a mother's murmur into a child's ear, a promise whispered at dawn of future triumphs and greatness, of justice and love."

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