The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince

The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince

In the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-ExupÃ©ry left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. Neither his plane nor his body was ever found. The Tale of the Rose is Consueloâ€™s account of their extraordinary marriage. It is a love story about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited woman who gave him the strength to fulfill his dreams.

Consuelo Suncin Sandoval de GÃ³mez and Antoine de Saint-ExupÃ©ry met in Buenos Aires in 1930â€”she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife.

Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender, poetic love. Several times in the course of their marriage they would go their separate ways, but always they would return. The Tale of the Rose is the story of a man of extravagant dreams, and of the woman who was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Princeâ€™s beloved roseâ€”unique in all the worldâ€”whom he could not live with and could not live without.

Written on Long Island in a quiet spell of reconciliation, The Little Prince was Antoineâ€™s greatest gift to the woman he never stopped loving, the only child to emerge from their union. The Tale of the Rose is Consueloâ€™s replyâ€”the love letter she never could write to her husbandâ€”a fable of its own, just as magical, poetic, and tragic as The Little Prince.

Praise for The Tale of the Rose

â€œWe find in these pages all the tenderness and patience, but also the tenacity, of a woman who loves. Consuelo does not seek to explain or even to understand her husband, she accepts him and leads him to what he must be. . . . Written with a strong and authentic voice,Â The Tale of the RoseÂ is a book to read for its strength of character, and for the adventure that it offers.â€â€”Elle
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color White
ReleaseDate 2003-01-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812967173

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2003-01-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812967173

The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince

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