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Funeral Rites M. Jean Genet Main edition
Funeral Rites
M. Jean Genet
Presents a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death. This book is a sensual and brutal portrait of a love story during the second world war, which unfolds between the poles of the author's grief for his lover Jean, killed in the resistance during the liberation of Paris.
256 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 21, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780571251544 |
| Publishers | Faber & Faber |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 214 × 146 × 20 mm · 286 g |
| Language | English |
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