Used book – Les Chemins de la gloire, Bernard Lenteric

A shepherd in his Corsican village of Alziprato, Antoine left his native land for the love of Anna, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, who was promised to another. In these post-war years, it was said that in Paris everything was possible for a twenty-year-old young man who owned nothing. In the hostile yet enchanting city, luck takes the form of an aging publisher looking for an adopted son. Antoine's life takes a dramatic turn. He finds himself at the head of a publishing house fighting against the powerful conglomerate that reigns supreme over the world of publishing. The confrontation, at first subtle, becomes a bloody war. Antoine's life then resembles the novels he publishes, full of passion, fury, and danger.