Promise at Dawn
Author: Romain Gary
Translator: Min-hwa Shim
Publisher: Munhakgwa Jiseongsa
Hardcover | 420 pages | 213*142mm
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About This Book
"This book is autobiographical in inspiration, but it is not an
autobiography" and it deals for the most part with his youth and his
particularly intense relationship with his ambitions and remarkable
mother. Kacew literally lived for, and created, her son. She was a
flamboyant dreamer; he was all she had; and her determination to show
the world, through him, often took the form of wildest fantasy. He was
to be a French ambassador, a musician, a famous writer. Meanwhile she
just barely supported them both, in Russian and Poland, by dressmaking,
and later in France by odd jobs. However the fervor and flavor of her
ambition never wavered. In their moments of affluence, the boy was given
a gentleman's training in books, dancing, fencing, and was stuffed with
tales of his mother's favorite heroes. All this weight of what was
expected of him had some curious and perhaps and effects on boy and man,
as Gary confesses. But he became much of what she had hoped- her ""happy
ending"": a daring aviator, awarded the Croix de Guerre and Legion of
Honor; a writer who was awarded the Prix Concourt; and now, the French
Consul-General in Los Angeles... This book is a tribute, filled with
admiration and sometimes flecked with guilt, to a remarkable woman and a
fascinating character, and in its frank, absorbed analysis of an extreme
mother-love is revelatory but not always comfortable. --Kirkus Reviews
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