Promise at Dawn

'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!'


For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce, eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great man. And she did. This, his thrilling, wildly romantic autobiography, is the story of his journey from poverty in Eastern Europe to the sensual world of the Côte d'Azur and on to wartime pilot, resistance hero, diplomat, filmmaker, star and one of the most famed French writers of his age.

„Vei fi un mare erou, un general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, ambasador al Frantei!” Pentru toata viata, mama feroce si excentrica a lui Romain Gary a avut un singur scop: sa-l faca pe fiul ei un barbat grozav. Si a facut-o.