Book description
In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a
journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds
there a planet which resembles his own, but on Soror humans behave like
animals, and are hunted by a civilised race of primates. Captured and
sent to a research facility, Ulysse must convince the apes of their
mutual origins. But such revelations will have always been greeted by
prejudice and fear... Pierre Boulle was born in 1912 at Avignon.
Boulle spent the Second World War fighting in Yunnan, Calcutta and
Indo-Chine, where he was captured by the Japanese. After the war he
lived in Malaya, the Cameroons and, finally, Paris, where he settled
until his death in 1994.
