Dominique Lapierre's life had changed after his encounter with Mother Teresa and the slums of Calcutta.
It was in 1981, he was celebrating his 50th birthday, and had gone with Dominique, his second wife, to the sister in the blue and white sari to offer her financial assistance.
Four years later appeared
La Cité de la joie
, a true novel inspired by the months they lived in a slum.
The publisher Robert Laffont did not believe that this leper story could be a success: in the end, 12 million copies sold!
Dominique Lapierre was able to move overnight from his villa in Ramatuelle to a slum in Bengal, to sleep in a palace or on the beaten earth among rats.
Before this love at first sight with the misery and greatness of India, he was already the author of colossal best-sellers written by four hands with his old American friend, Larry Collins.
Their first book
Is Paris Burning?,
on the liberation of the capital, published in 1965, was…
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