CONSUELO DE SAINT EXUPERY

«Más tarde, supe que la flor era yo, una flor muy orgullosa, como dice en El principito. Memorias de la rosa nos traslada al universo de El principito, el libro francés más leído y traducido de todo

Cinquante-cinq ans après leur retour de New York, les malles-cabines qui conservaient jalousement toute la vie commune de Saint-Exupéry et de son épouse Consuelo livrent enfin leur mystère. Leur long

Buenos Aires, septembre 1930. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chef d’exploitation de l’Aeroposta Argentina, fait la connaissance de Consuelo Suncín Sandoval, la jeune veuve salvadorienne de l’écrivain Enri

In the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. Neither his plane nor his body was ever found. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelos account of their extraordinary marriage. It is a love story about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited woman who gave him the strength to fulfill his dreams. Consuelo Suncin Sandoval de Gomez and Antoine de Saint-Exupery met in Buenos Aires in 1930she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife. Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender, poetic love. Several times in the course of their marriage they would go their separate ways, but always they would return. The Tale of the Rose is the story of a man of extravagant dreams, and of the woman who was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Princes beloved roseunique in all the worldwhom he could not live with and could not live without. Written on Long Island in a quiet spell of reconciliation, The Little Prince was Antoines greatest gift to the woman he never stopped loving, the only child to emerge from their union. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelos replythe love letter she never could write to her husbanda fable of its own, just as magical, poetic, and tragic as The Little Prince.Praise for The Tale of the RoseWe find in these pages all the tenderness and patience, but also the tenacity, of a woman who loves. Consuelo does not seek to explain or even to understand her husband, she accepts him and leads him to what he must be. . . . Written with a strong and authentic voice, The Tale of the Rose is a book to read for its strength of character, and for the adventure that it offers.Elle