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Frogs Out
of Water The French love to travel, and travel can change us all, but a Frenchman will always be French, no matter how far he is from home. Frogs Out of Water by André Malécot, is a collection of a dozen stories about French characters outside of French society. These stories map how the characters do and donít get along; how they long for their homeland; how they connect with others from France, and those outside of France; and how they view themselves in the world. Frogs Out of Water gives us insight into the French character, and offers us examples of French humanity: a woman executive who has moved to California to irritate and eventually win over her fellow employee; a ìDoctor Without Bordersî in Mali, who leaves his lover to follow adventure and his true loveómedicineóand finds what he was looking for; a peace-keeper who helps to save more than peace in Sarajevo; a water engineer in Senegal who collaborates with a dowser to dig a well successfully; a ski instructor in the Austrian Alps who is forced to come to terms with, and get past, his hatred of Germans; a gourmet who goes to jail and the chef who makes his imprisonment tolerable; and a French poodle who is rescued from a traveling circus and falls in love with an American poodle. These stories vary in tone from funny to poignant, and in subject matter from love to politics, from show business to fine cuisine, and from friendship to travel. But there is something very French about each one, as well as something very cosmopolitan. Frogs Out of Water is instructive and warm in its emphasis on the compatibility of people of all nationalitiesóeven if that compatibility must come with work, compromise, and understanding.
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Frogs Out of Water 129 pages, paperback, $10.95 For ordering information, click here or phone (800) 662-8351 |