The Dream Maker
Alison Anderson
(Translator)
Description
In Rufin's delectable prose this true story becomes a gripping tale of adventure, a novel of ideas, and a moving love story.
Product Details
| Publisher | Europa Editions |
| Publish Date | November 05, 2013 |
| Pages | 416 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781609451424 |
| Dimensions | 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.5 inches | 1.4 pounds |
About the Author
Alison Anderson's translations for Europa Editions include novels by Sélim Nassib, Amélie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008) and The Life of the Elves (Europa, 2016) by Muriel Barbery.
Reviews
The Dream Maker brings to vivid life the exmplary career of a little known medieval paragon, Jacques Coeur, banker, visionary and crafter of the glory that was France.
--The Barnes & Noble Review
"The Dream Maker blends with skill and efficiency politics, business, travel and love. All of this written in a classic, elegant prose, of which Jean-Christophe Rufin has long had a command."
--Le JDD
Rufin bestows such immediacy to this artist of finance, such vitality that we hear the sound of Coeur's own voice telling us his life.
--Télérama
In this time of the dehumanization of the economy and forced globalization, Jean-Christophe Rufin offers his readers a return to the origins, to when commerce was considered one of man's most beautiful accomplishments, to a time when the wildest dreamer could be a wealthy merchant--Jacques Coeur, the treasurer poet.
--Philippe Chevilley, Les Echos
"Jean-Christophe Rufin has re-established his eloquence and spirit, that of the great novelist of the people, which...enchants his readers. His new novel is both a chivalric odyssey and a brilliant reflection on power."
--Lire
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