Vango
Author(s): Timothee de Fombelle
Raised by a strange nanny in Sicily, Vango grows up with one friend, a priest Zefiro, who lives in a monastery hidden from sight. On reaching adulthood, Vango decides to follow in Zefiro's steps, but at the moment he is taking his holy orders at Notre Dame in Paris, he is falsely accused of a crime and has to go on the run. This is a breathless and highly cinematic story that follows Vango travelling by Zeppelin across Europe from Stromboli to Nazi Germany, from Scotland to the Soviet Union, climbing the rooftops of Paris, crossing the paths of arms traffickers, crooked policemen, Russian spies and even Stalin.
Product Information
Timothee de Fombelle is a much-admired French playwright, as well as the author of Toby Alone (9781406313154), and Toby Alone and the Secrets of the Tree (9781406310146). Walker published Toby Alone in 2008, when the work had already been translated into twenty-two languages. Timothee lives in Paris.
General Fields
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- : Walker Books, Limited
- : Walker Books Ltd
- : 0.674
- : 28 February 2013
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
- : 432
- : very good
- : 843.92
- : Hardback
- : Timothee de Fombelle