Anti-Memoirs

By Andre Malraux, Terence Kilmartin (translator),

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Reprint from the French edition. Five printings plus a book club edition. André Malraux (1901 - 1976) was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933), which won the Prix…

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