[1] It was first published in 1946 and in that year was also awarded the 1940 Prix Goncourt, which previously had been missed because of the German invasion of France.
[2] The novel was translated in 1948 by Elaine P. Halperin as The Long Holiday.
It was reissued in a definitive version in 1956 entitled Les Grandes Vacances, 1939-1945.
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