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Promise at Dawn

Romain Gary

Paperback | Pages: 348 pages

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Original Title:	La Promesse de l'aube
ISBN:	0811210162 (ISBN13: 9780811210164)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Romain Kacew, Nina Kacew
Setting:	Wilno,1921(Lithuania) France Poland

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'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."


A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic.

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Title	:	Promise at Dawn
Author	:	Romain Gary
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 348 pages
Published	:	April 17th 1987 by New Directions (first published 1960)
Categories	:	Cultural. France. Fiction. Classics

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Excellent autobiography of the French novelist Romain Gary from his childhood days spent in Poland,Russia and France up until the end of the Second World War, in which he served in the R.A.F. Most of the book is on the relationship between him and his mother (he never really knew his father)who had a profound influence on his life (in a good way).While I think maybe he embellishes some of the details of her life, she was still obviously an amazing woman and mother, and the ending of the book is

I'm so glad that I finally got to read this book. One of the best books I've read this year, and who knows, maybe in my life. Warm, funny, but also sad, self-ironic and lyrical masterpiece.

I came to reading this book, having found it listed in 'Dans les forêts du Sibérie' among the books Sylvain Tesson had taken with him and because one of the first French novels that I ever read and loved, was 'La vie devant soi'. Another reason why I felt that this book might appeal to me, was because it deals extensively with the influence of motherly love on a person's life and independence in life.The book is a humorous account of the life of Romain Gary, from his early childhood years as a

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"Je crus mourir de honte. Il va sans dire que j'avais beaucoup d'illusions, car si on pouvait mourir de honte, il y a longtemps que l'humanité ne serait plus là." I wonder if that hasn't happened to the world? Has the kind of human being who is still capable of feeling and dying of shame been pushed aside to the benefit of another, more vulgar and therefore stronger breed that is completely shameless? Romain Gary suffered from a loving mother. She loved him to the extent that his whole life was

This is a memoir written by Romain Gary and is also a book from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Mr Gary wrote this memoir as a tribute to his mother. Romain Gary is of Jewish and Russian origin became a French citizen. He is the only son of his mother, he never knew who is father was and she raised him single-handedly and single-mindedly. The first chapter is the ending but only a glimpse and it leaves you guessing. Mr. Gary is lying on the beach at Big Sur. He also introduces us to