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Translated by Willard Wood (Other Press). This best-selling debut novel from one of France’s most exciting young writers is based on the true story of the 1949 disappearance of the Constellation, a new plane launched by Howard Hughes, and its famous passengers. Tying together the destinies of boxer - and fiancé of Edith Piaf - Marcel Cerdan, a musical prodigy, and others, the novel gives these thirty-eight men and women a new life by imagining their long-forgotten story.