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Author: Tobias Grey

Posted on November 11, 2004April 2, 2017

Jean-Christophe Rufin’s “Globalia”

A scintillating tale of derring-do set in France’s distant colonial past, written by, wait for it…a Frenchman. It’s the kind of swashbuckling entertainment that would send an existentialist like Sartre spinning in his grave.
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