"Paris, 1909: Adelie Tremier, a young widow suffering the final stages of tuberculosis, flees for French-occupied Indochina, through the lush forests of Laos, to seek out a fabled spring of immortality that might allow her to reunite with her nine-year-old son. Laos, 1936: Pierre Lazarie, a young academic turned Saigon bureaucrat, is sent by Adelie's grown son to find his long-lost mother. Accompanied by his loutish colleague Henri LeDallic, Pierre stumbles in Adelie's faded footsteps through the lush Laotian jungle, where ...
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"Paris, 1909: Adelie Tremier, a young widow suffering the final stages of tuberculosis, flees for French-occupied Indochina, through the lush forests of Laos, to seek out a fabled spring of immortality that might allow her to reunite with her nine-year-old son. Laos, 1936: Pierre Lazarie, a young academic turned Saigon bureaucrat, is sent by Adelie's grown son to find his long-lost mother. Accompanied by his loutish colleague Henri LeDallic, Pierre stumbles in Adelie's faded footsteps through the lush Laotian jungle, where history and fable are improbably and astonishingly intertwined"--P. [4] of cover.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1553654641. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Light wear to edges of d/j.; 9.10 X 6.30 X 1.30 inches; 424 pages.