The Desert Foxes

Coming of age

The most remote place can hide the greatest secret.

Two foxes and a secret: Morice is the boy destined to reveal it. At eleven, he has just moved to Dautreme, a remote village in Corsica. While his parents run the decaying Hotel Napoléon, he goes around recording the sounds of the sea. At least, that’s the plan, until one afternoon he meets Audrey, a girl his age. She reveals to him the unsettling disappearance of a German sailor who lived there. And this isn’t the only mystery. Soon, Maurice and Audrey discover that the entire village is overshadowed by a dark secret that dates back to World War II. The same war in which Rommel, the Nazi general known as “The Desert Fox,” and Saint-Exupéry, the famous author of The Little Prince, may have crossed paths, triggering a treasure hunt that has lasted for forty years and leads directly to those cliffs…

  • An adventure story that weaves a memorable summer of the 1980s with the great secrets of History.
  • Inspired by the true mystery of the disappearance of the author of The Little Prince, who vanished during an aerial reconnaissance over Corsica during World War II.



Publisher: Mondadori
Target: 10+
Year: 2018
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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