# On Leave

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- Authors: [Daniel Anselme](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-anselme)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2014-04-24

## Description

First published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, On Leave received a handful of reviews and soon disappeared from view. Through David Bellos's translation, this lost classic has been rediscovered. Spare, forceful and moving, the novel describes a week in the lives of a sergeant, a corporal and a private, home on leave in Paris. Informed by the many hours Anselme spent talking to conscripts in Paris, On Leave is a timeless evocation of the shame and alienation felt by men returning home from an unpopular war.

## Editions

### On Leave

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-754-6
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2015-03-05
- Language: en_GB

### On Leave

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-755-3
- Published: 2014-04-24
- Language: en_GB