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Within the MoonDans La LuneA memoir of the 1930s youth in FranceABOUT THIS BOOKIn You are taken by the Moon on a brilliant and engaging journey of the existence in France, of his enthusiasms, daydreams and individual development. Told mainly in the speech of the developing child, Within the Moon recounts, frequently with much laughter, the numerous circumstances and strange figures in Alain’s unique life.Alain may be the child of the strong-willed, positive Belgian mother and an excellent, tough-minded and psychologically laconic English father, but he's also greatly affected by way of a surrogate father, Raimond, their German servant and gardener. Alain needs to form his personality and options amidst the influences of the school-ridden and international milieu. Contributing to the strain, he visits six colleges over a period of time of six decades.