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The Little Prince and Letter to a Hostage

ISBN 
9780141185620
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R215.00
Published 
May 2004
About the book: 

Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince  in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power.

The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep.

"In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, child-like directions.

Letter to a Hostage  is an open letter to a Jewish intellectual in hiding in occupied France.

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