Product Description: Winner of the Prix Femina award in 1987, this historical novel is set a thousand years ago in France, and follows the story of Odilon de Bernay, who serves as page to Liebaut de Malbry. Absire's books have won several prizes - "Lazarus" was his seventh award-winning novel.

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