The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind the Little Prince |
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Consuelo De Saint-Exupery, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery
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Pages: 352 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0812967178
Pub: Random House Trade
Pub date: 2003-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 149927
Reader Reviews:
Brilliant and heartbreaking (4/4 people found this helpful)
This is a compelling and powerful true story of the love of Consuelo De Saint-Exupery for her husband (romantic 'hero' and author of The Little Prince), but it's not a fairy tale. It will take your breath away at times, it may break your heart.
Consuelo Saint-Exupery finally gets her say! (33/37 people found this helpful)
Written by the wife of a great author Antoine Saint-Exupery, the tale shows the life of a powerful woman and how she has lived up to the expectations of her husband. After the appearance of The Little Prince by Sain-Exupery the wolrd has been misled by the biographical interpretaions of the author. The characters in Antoine's novel have been reviewed time and again, but unfortunatelly, wrongly. The rose has finally shown her real face, and in the Tale of a Rose one can see what Saint-Exupery intended by placing the fox and the rose in one novel. The Tale of the Rose is a diary-based novel retrieved from the notes that Consuelo has written over the years living with Antoine. An amazing love stroy reveals itslef and shows us that Antoine's lover was not the person intended for the rose but his wife. The authencity of the novel can be seen from the fact that Consuelo has not published the book herself but someone else did. She lives up to the expectations of the editors by writting a tale worth as much as her husband's novels. It is a story with which every woman can identify herself and proves that love can fight anything as Consuelo has throughout her life.
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