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Someone Called Mr. Piekielny Book Description

His own life story In his book, I Had a Promise Made at Dawn, Romain Gary talks about a promise he made to his neighbor, Mr. Piekielny, when he was a child: In the future, when he meets the notables of this world, he will say, “In Wilno, at number 16 Great Pohulanka Street, there lived a man named Mr. Piekielny.” Romain Gary will not forget this promise. When he manages to fit more than one life into a single life, in the footsteps of his mother's prophecies and beyond, he repeats this sentence, ending "There lived a man named Mr. Piekielny," at every opportunity.

How should Romain introduce Gary? Writer, diplomat, fighter jet pilot, director; wife of the short-haired beauty Jean Seberg, the iconic face of the cinema world; Frenchman who managed to receive the prestigious literary award Goncourt, which is not given more than once to the same person, twice, once under his own name and once under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar.

Years after the death of Romain Gary, the writer disappeared in Vilnius. By chance, François-Henri Désérable finds himself in front of the house where Romain Gary lived as a child. He remembers Gary's promise to Mr. Piekielny, and the following questions begin to occupy his mind: Did a man named Mr. Piekielny really exist? Did Romain Gary say this famous phrase to Kennedy, de Gaulle, Queen Elizabeth and many others, as he said? Pursuing the real thing, the author opens the doors of a story and extraordinary lives where it is not clear which one begins and where it ends, in this novel where reality and dreams are intertwined.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2. Dough

Number of Pages: 240

Size: 12.5 x 19.5

< strong>First Print Year: 2020

Print Number: 1. Edition

Language : Turkish