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Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the two lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy Léon's marriage and by the German invasion of France. In occupied Paris during the Second World War, where Léon struggles against the abhorrent tasks imposed upon him by the SS, and the wilds of Africa, where Louise confronts the hardships of her primitive environment, they battle the vicissitudes of history and the passage of time for the survival of their love.
- Sales Rank: #494083 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-10-30
- Released on: 2012-10-30
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
A century before the Internet and online dating, young men and women met the way they do in the opening scenes of Capus’ engaging tale set in the French village of Saint-Luc-sur-Marne during World War I. Léon Le Gall is smitten with comely Louise Janvier the moment he sees her riding her rickety bicycle through town. The two begin spending their days together and are soon inseparable. A short time later, they’re caught in artillery fire. Each presumes the other is dead. Ten years later, Léon is living in Paris, a devoted husband with a four-year-old child. Louise, however, is never far from his mind. When he catches a glimpse of her at the train station, a conflict of conscience ensues. Should he stay faithful to his wife and family or follow his heart? He’s tempted to do the latter, as his marriage has grown stale, and his job is driving him mad. Against the brutal backdrop of war, Capus renders a powerful tale of love lost and found. --Allison Block
Review
'A beautiful love story.' 'It's a great love story told with great humour... along the lines of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Atonement and The Postmistress.' 'Swiss author Capus is an apt storyteller... On its surface, this is a story about enduring love. But it is also about the way that power can be abused... and the daily sacrifices people make to preserve what they hold most dear.' 'Capus' leads are riveting, credible creations -- he sensible and correct, she feisty and headstrong. We root for them, especially when war takes over and threatens to sunder them for good... This love-conquers-all tale could easily have been trite and saccharine, but instead Capus' fusion of gripping drama and believable characters renders Leon and Louise both powerful and poignant.' '[G]em of a novel...' '[W]insome bonbon of a novel in which "The End" feels like an unexpected and unfairly realistic awakening.' 'A perfectly plotted love story, which never becomes over saccharine.'
About the Author
Alex Capus is a French-Swiss novelist who writes in German. His works of fiction and non-fiction that have been translated into English include Sailing by Starlight (2008), A Matter of Time (2009), Leon and Louise (2012) and Skidoo (2014).
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Alex Capus offers everything a discerning reader wants from a novel
By Tina Martin
"Leon and Louise" is an insightful look into varieties of love and loyalty and, like Alex Campus' "A Moment in Time" and "Sailing by Starlight," it gives the reader a personal sense of history--of being there. I think it will make a very good movie, but no movie could convey Alex Campus' writing, which always has depth, wit, and fascinating details. (Here I have to say I've always read his books only in translation--two in English by John Brownjohn, one in Spanish by a translator whose name I can't remember.)
I wouldn't describe "Leon & Louis" as a beach read like, say "Bridges of Madison Country," to which it could be favorably compared, because I think it's more provocative and more artfully written than that usually implies. "Leon & Louise" offers and demands more. Yes, it's a story of the love that endures between Leon and Louise, but it's also about the love between Leon and his wife Yvonne. In addition to the love theme, there's an exploration of loyalty and honor in a marriage and in an extra-marital relationship as well as on the job and in a city (Paris) occupied (by the Nazis in World War II). It's about family in the universal sense but depicts one with unique characteristics. (I love the Le Galls!) It's about the vicissitudes of marriage As if that's not enough, it relates to the friendships we have with people we see only in passing like the concierge and the street beggar we get to know and care about as Leon does, and we also benefit from his awareness of the humanity involved in every exchange with these people we sometimes finally get to know. The book also poses some very compelling questions: How does our romantic past affect our present reality? Do some star-crossed lovers benefit from their frustration and all they imagine might have been? Should a wife encourage her husband to find the woman he once loved and lost? And how about the very broad but essential question(s): What sustains love and what matters in our lives?
These are all questions Alex Capus raises in a very artful way. But here is one question specific to "Leon & Louise" that I'm still wondering about: Why did Louise remain a stranger to Leon's family--even when loyalty to his wife would not have been compromised? The questions a reader continues to consider show the power of this book.
An additional comment, directed at Audible.com: Please let us know who the translators are when you describe the book online and when the book is recorded (as I hope this one will be). Every recording should begin with the title of the book, the author, the translator (if it's not in the language of the original), and the reader. Why is this so often omitted. I've compared translations, so I know translators make an enormous contribution!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A delightful tale of love lost....and found
By Mrs C
Capus captures his audience with a deliciously detailed narrative of two young lovers who battle fate's unlucky hand to love one another. This ironic romance set in war ravaged Europe in the early part of the twentieth century reaches beyond its setting to clasp its reader into its timeless themes. The characters are bold and three dimensional, wicked and bursting with color. Definitely storytellers' story.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Pleasant Romance of Two Wars
By Roger Brunyate
I selected this from a Frankfurt Book Fair list of three dozen outstanding German-language fiction titles available in English. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but two things surprised me: first, that it was considered weighty enough to stand beside books by Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Daniel Kehlmann, Eugen Ruge, and Peter Stamm; and second, that such a French book should have been written in German. But not by a German, admittedly. Alex Capus is a Swiss author writing in German (fluently translated here by John Brownjohn), but his action is entirely set in France, in Normandy at first, and then in Paris, both very well imagined (but see first comment). The story takes in two World Wars, beginning in 1918 and ending in 1986. A BBC review excerpted on the back cover calls it "a beautiful love story," and so it is, though not entirely in the way you might think. There is also an excerpt from The Independent, reviewing another Capus novel: "Flowing, charming, but mischievous, the story slips past like a tantalizing vision." Apt words here too.
The novel begins with Léon Le Gall, a teenage boy working in the railway station in a small town in northern France, meeting Louise Janvier, a self-reliant orphan working for the town's lecherous mayor. Cycling home from their one weekend together, they are caught in the last German offensive of the war, in which each believes the other has been killed. Not so, of course, but it will be a dozen years before they find each other again, and even longer before they are finally reunited, at the end of the Second World War. Léon, meanwhile, has married and started a family; the novel is narrated by one of the several grandchildren at his funeral. Of course we expect one of those grand adulterous romances that span the decades, with the lovers hoarding their passion for a few stolen hours. But thanks to Louise's level-headedness, Léon's honesty, and the quite extraordinary understanding of Léon's wife Yvonne, it does not turn out this way. In fact, I wonder if the phrase "a beautiful love story" does not apply at least as much to what Léon has with Yvonne?
So perhaps it is not such a surprise that this was written by a Swiss author. Instead of Flaubertian passion, we get a slightly detached comedy that is wry but gently satisfying. Similarly, we get an ordinary citizen's view of the German occupation, some episodes that move very slightly into the shadow of the Holocaust but do not darken completely,* and a fascinating sidelight on how the French Bank smuggled the national gold reserves to Africa. I was always interested and often charmed, but by the end I was looking for rather more bite.
*The most explicit Holocaust reference -- as indicative as anything of Capus' understatement and subtlety -- is a scene in a Paris metro involving a uniformed Wehrmacht soldier and a young Jew wearing a yellow star. But it is unusual in that it is the German who gives up his seat to the Jew, who takes it but hangs his head, weeping with shame.
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