Cat's Grin: A Novel (King Penguin S.) - Softcover

An autobiographical story of a boy named "Le Chat" during the years 1944-45 in occupied France. This wartime memoir tells of his childhood in the countryside and how he joins the Americans, but terrified, returns to Paris and to school to await the news of his family's varied fortunes. Francois Maspero founded two periodicals - in 1961, "Partisans" and in 1972, "L'Arternative".