Further your ticket is invalid: Romain Gary

The brilliant Romain Gary is one of the world’s most famous world classics today. The military pilot, the hero of the Second World War, the professional diplomat, the commander of the Order of the Legion of Honor, is also the only one among the French writers who received the Goncurovsky Prize twice: the first time in 1956, like Romain Gary for the novel “The Roots of Heaven”, the second – in 1975 for the book “All Life Ahead” as a novice author Emil Ajar. The great hoaxer Gari -Ajar (the real name is Roman Kasev), changing pseudonyms and masks, rebels against the barriers laid by man by nature itself. In the novel “Further, your ticket is invalid” for such an obstacle to happiness is age. Parisian businessman Jacques Rainier falls in love on the threshold of the sixtieth anniversary in an eighteen -year -old girl, and she reciprocates. The handsome man, in the past, a dashing participant in resistance, the idol of women, he feels how years his strength is undermined. Against the backdrop of the acute problems of Europe, experiencing an energy crisis, Jacques are trying to reconcile the irreconcilable and …

Author
Gary Romen
Translator
Mavelvich Natalya Samoilovna
Publisher
Corpus, 2011
Series
Roman