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The November Boy
by Bernat Manciet
(Francis Boutle, £8.99)
BERNAT MANCIET (1923-2005) is one of the most internationally orientated Occitan writers of the modern era and at the same time the most rooted in one specific location, the village of Sabres in the Gascon Landes.
Educated in Sabres and Talence, near Bordeaux, he acquired an advanced knowledge of the Latin and Greek classics, partly through uncles who were Catholic priests.
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