''The Winter Journey'' (french: Le Voyage d'Hiver) is the 18th novel by the Belgian writer
Amélie Nothomb
Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (), better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb (; born 13 August 1967),''État présent de la noblesse belge'', éditions of 1979, 1995 and 2010. Her birth is announced in n° 87, aout 1967, p. 340 of the ''Bull ...
. It appeared on 20 August 2009 published by
Éditions Albin Michel.
Plot
In spite of Zoïle's attempts to get rid of the presence of autistic novelist Aliénor Malèze from Astrolabe’s life, her agent and protector, so as to fully live his love for her, the result is a sentimental failure . Zoïle, desperate, drifts into an act of aerial terrorism, by hijacking a Roissy airplane armed with a glass shard from a broken bottle, he wants to crash the plane on the
Eiffel Tower....
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The title refers to Franz Schubert's lied
In Western classical music tradition, (, plural ; , plural , ) is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music. The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German, but among English and French s ...
Winterreise: in the novel, Zoïle thinks about this song cycle to forget about his fear during the terrorist act.
References
2009 Belgian novels
Novels by Amélie Nothomb
Aviation novels
Books about autism
Novels set in France
Éditions Albin Michel books
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