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Munichs
Le 6 février 1958, l'avion qui transportait les « Busby Babes », l'équipe de football de Manchester United, s'écrase à Munich. Sur les 44 passagers, seuls 21 survivront au crash. C'est une tragédie sans précédent pour la ville et le pays. Après "44 jours" et "Rouge ou mort", David Peace signe un nouveau chef-d'oeuvre sur le football. Son style inimitable immerge le lecteur au coeur du drame et de son impact sur les familles des victimes. Elégie aux disparus - comment se souvenir des morts ? - et ode au football, ce roman bouleversant raconte aussi le moment de bascule où ce sport devient un phénomène médiatique de grande ampleur.
520 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 4, 2026
About the author
David Peace
40 books544 followersDavid Peace was born in 1967 and grew up in Ossett, near Wakefield. He left Manchester Polytechnic in 1991, and went to Istanbul to teach English. In 1994 he took up a teaching post in Tokyo and now lives there with his family.
His formative years were shadowed by the activities of the Yorkshire Ripper, and this had a profound influence on him which led to a strong interest in crime. His quartet of Red Riding books grew from this obsession with the dark side of Yorkshire. These are powerful novels of crime and police corruption, using the Yorkshire Ripper as their basis and inspiration. They are entitled Nineteen Seventy-Four, (1999), Nineteen Seventy-Seven (2000), Nineteen Eighty (2001), and Nineteen Eighty-Three (2002), and have been translated into French, Italian, German and Japanese.
In 2003 David Peace was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty "Best Young British Novelists." His novel GB84, set during the 1984 miners' strike, was published in 2005.
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His formative years were shadowed by the activities of the Yorkshire Ripper, and this had a profound influence on him which led to a strong interest in crime. His quartet of Red Riding books grew from this obsession with the dark side of Yorkshire. These are powerful novels of crime and police corruption, using the Yorkshire Ripper as their basis and inspiration. They are entitled Nineteen Seventy-Four, (1999), Nineteen Seventy-Seven (2000), Nineteen Eighty (2001), and Nineteen Eighty-Three (2002), and have been translated into French, Italian, German and Japanese.
In 2003 David Peace was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty "Best Young British Novelists." His novel GB84, set during the 1984 miners' strike, was published in 2005.
from contemporarywriters.com
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