''Class Trip'' (french: La Classe de neige) is a 1995 novel by the French writer

Emmanuel Carrère Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director. Life Family Carrère was born into a wealthy family in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. His father, Louis Carrère d'Encausse, is a retired insuranc ...

. It takes place during a school ski trip where a 10-year-old boy has feverish anxiety about the

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his father has warned him about. It was published in English in 1997. The book was awarded the Prix Femina. It was adapted into the film ''

Class Trip ''Class Trip'' is a 1998 French drama film by Claude Miller, based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère. Its original French title is ''La Classe de neige'', which is the name given to class trips in the snow. It tells the sto ...

'' which won the Jury Prize at the

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{{Emmanuel Carrère 1995 French novels Novels by Emmanuel Carrère French novels adapted into films