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Madame tells the story of a self-absorbed Polish teenager as he pursues intellectual maturity, and the woman of his dreams, his French teacher 'Madame', in the communist-dominated Warsaw of the early 1970s.Libera paces his exuberant young hero's fulminations, fantasies and discoveries beautifully, building a remarkably subtle characterisation of a free mind in a repressive culture. This is one of those rare novels which reminds us why we love books. A consummate literary entertainment.
Today's #riotgrams is a #onewordtitle and this is the first book that came to mind. Loved it when I read it years ago. A teenage boy's doomed love for his glamorous French instructor in 1960s Poland. #madame#antonilibera
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