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Au Revoir les Enfants (Evergreen Book)

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I'm a French teacher in a college prep high school. This book is nothing more than the screenplay for the movie of the same name. It doesn't pretend to be anything else, so if all you want to do is enjoy the movie there's no reason to read the book. But for students of French, what a wonderful way to learn! Just read the book, with the help of a good dictionary, then see the film. But I warn you that you have to be fairly advanced in the language before attempting to read the book. However, the rewards are considerable. First, it's a wonderful, touching story that has lessons for all. Secondly, your knowledge of the language will increase exponentially.

I loved this book and the movie. It was great how it showed France being occupied by the Germans during World War II through the eyes of a child. I saw the movie in my French class and I was so touched and so sad about what these kids had to go through. I would reccomend this book to anyone and everyone.

This is just a short screenplay of the movie and not really a memoir. Rent the excellent movie.

i got this book for school and it was a really good price and it was helpful that it was already annotated in french.

The screenplay is written in street French. The actors follow the script perfectly. Watching the movie is hard, because French people talk fast, and many French words all sound the same. You really need to know context as to which sound goes with which word. Aha! This was great to read the book first, then watch the movie. It all made sense to a French 101 student. The movie is excellent, and even with no understanding of French you will know what is going on. Following the dialog then makes it so much better. You can turn the subtitles off! As a French student I found all the dialog to be enlightening as to how to say "Je n'peux pas" instead of the long winded "Je ne peux pas," and many other simplifications. This book is a keeper!

When I read the first time this book I cryed. This is wonderful book about olochaust. It's wiewed by the eyes of a children. He study in a French college, where we meet an other student, a jewish student. They became friend. But as they try to look away from the war, that reality will overwhelm them, break their friendship and break up them for ever. It's the story of olochaust's injustice, that hit also the lamb: the children. It's a book very sad and will reduce you to tears. I suggest everyone to read it.

This book was used so it was expected for it to have some wear and tear. The book was in fine condition (binding intact, no earmarked pages, etc) but there was an excessive amount of writing on the pages.

First of all, the book was great, and that's all that needs to be said about that... Now, I'm not Quentin Taratino, but, when he worked in a video store, this movie was one of his favorites. He referred to it as "The Reservoir Film" because he couldn't pronounce the frech title. This movie was supposedy one of th reasons he named his own film, "The Reservoir Dogs"...