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Vango: Between Sky and Earth

Raised by a strange nanny in Sicily, Vango grows up with one friend, a priest Zefiro, who lives in a monastery hidden from sight. On reaching adulthood, Vango decides to follow in Zefiro’s steps, but at the moment he is taking his holy orders at Notre Dame in Paris, he is falsely accused of a crime and has to go on the run. This is a breathless and highly cinematic story that follows Vango travelling by Zeppelin across Europe from Stromboli to Nazi Germany, from Scotland to the Soviet Union, climbing the rooftops of Paris, crossing the paths of arms traffickers, crooked policemen, Russian spies and even Stalin.

‘A thrilling adventure story…a distinctive and atmospherically cinematic tale.’ The Independent on Sunday

Author

Timothée de Fombelle

Timothée de Fombelle

Books

Vango: Between Sky and Earth

Timothée de Fombelle is a popular French playwright and has achieved international success as a fiction author with his stunning debut, Tobie Lolness: La Vie Suspendue (Toby Alone) and its sequel Les Yeux d’Elisha (Toby and the Secrets of the Tree). In 2013, the first book in Timothée’s Vango series, Vango, book one: Between Sky and Earth won an English PEN award. The final instalment Vango, book two: A Prince without a Kingdom was also published to great critical acclaim.

Translator

Sarah Ardizzone

Sarah Ardizzone

Books

Dreams from the Endz

School Blues

Vango: Between Sky and Earth

Alpha

Sarah Ardizzone has translated forty-something titles from the French, winning several awards – including the Scott-Moncrieff Prize for Just Like Tomorrow by Faïza Guene. She has a special interest in translating sharp dialogue, urban and migrant slang, and in what the Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou calls “a world literature in French”. Sarah appears regularly on the book festival and live literature circuit, and curates educational programmes around translation – including Translation Nation, Translators in Schools, The Spectacular Translation Machine and The Big Translate.

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Walker Books, 2014
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Raised by a strange nanny in Sicily, Vango grows up with one friend, a priest Zefiro, who lives in a monastery hidden from sight. On reaching adulthood, Vango decides to follow in Zefiro’s steps, but at the moment he is taking his holy orders at Notre Dame in Paris, he is falsely accused of a crime and has to go on the run. This is a breathless and highly cinematic story that follows Vango travelling by Zeppelin across Europe from Stromboli to Nazi Germany, from Scotland to the Soviet Union, climbing the rooftops of Paris, crossing the paths of arms traffickers, crooked policemen, Russian spies and even Stalin.

‘A thrilling adventure story…a distinctive and atmospherically cinematic tale.’ The Independent on Sunday

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