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This memoir of the author's brief sojourn working at a café and auberge in Corsica is populated with a questionable group of locals, fugitives, and escapists during the Algerian and Vietnam Wars.
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"[The Rose Café is] a lovely, multilayered memoir, capturing Mitchell's recollections of his idyllic state of 'suspended animation.'"
The New York Times Book Review
"The juxtaposition of the beautiful island's vitality and the horrors it so recently survived are captured well in Mitchell's precise and evocative prose."
Publishers Weekly, starred review
"With an acute sense of character and precise flair for dramatic detail, Mitchell's picaresque memoir renders this seductively vaporous world in crystalline prose."
Publishers Weekly, starred review