6. The Organisation de l’armée secrète (OAS – or Organisation armée secrète, ‘Secret Armed Organisation’) was a short-lived, French far-right nationalist militant and underground organisation during the Algerian War (1954–62). The OAS used armed struggle in an attempt to prevent Algeria’s independence.
7. EgyptAir Flight 648 was a Boeing 737 airliner hijacked in 1985 by the terrorist Abu Nidal Organisation. The subsequent raid on the aircraft by Egyptian troops led to dozens of deaths, making the hijacking one of the deadliest incidents in the history of aviation.
About the Author
Dominique Manotti was born in Paris in 1942, and was a political and union activist from the end of the Algerian War in 1962 until 1968. She is a professor of 19th-century economic history in Paris, and author of many novels, including Rough Trade, Dead Horsemeat (short-listed for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award), Lorraine Connection (which won the International Dagger Award and was nominated for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards), and Affairs of State (all published by Arcadia Books). Her gritty, Euro noir novels tell the story of France’s modern social evolution, for better and worse, and Dominique is one of France’s bestselling crime novelists, translated into 12 languages and selling over 200,000 copies worldwide.
About the Translators
Amanda Hopkinson is Professor of Literary Translation at City University, London. She translates from Spanish (including Elena Poniatowska and Juan Villoro), Portuguese (Paulo Coelho and Jose Saramago) and French (Dominique Manotti). She also publishes on Latin American culture, particularly literature (Isabel Allende) and photography (most recently a history of photography in Mexico).
Ros Schwartz has translated over 60 titles from French. Her translation of Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince was shortlisted for the Marsh Award for children’s literature in translation in 2012. She was made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2009.
Copyright
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First published in the United Kingdom by Arcadia Books 2009
Originally published by Éditions Payot & Rivages as Nos fantastiques années fric 2001
Copyright © Dominique Manotti 2001
Translation copyright © Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz 2009
Dominique Manotti has asserted her moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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