An Honourable Exit
20 April 2023Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023
'Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work' - Scotsman
'Absolutely spectacular' - France Info
19 October 1950. The war is not...
Details
20 April 2023192 pages
9781035003976Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work . . . I cannot think of an Anglophone author who writes with such polemical, poetical indignationScotsman
Powerful . . . An entracingly nightmarish analysis of the First Indochina WarGraham Robb, The Spectator
Clever and scathingLe Temps
Vuillard writes into grey areas of historyNew York Times
