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Les Racines du ciel Kindle ´ Les Racines ePUB Â Émile AjarBorn Roman Kacew Yiddish קצב Russian Кацев Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII His father Les Racines ePUB Â Arieh Leib Kacew abandoned his family in and remarried From this time Gary was raised by his mother Nina Owczinski When he was fourteen he and his mother moved to Nice France In his books and interviews he presented many different versions of his father's origin parents occupation and childhoodHe later studied law first in Aix en Provence and then in Paris He learned to pilot an aircraft in the French Air Force in Salon de Provence and in Avord Air Base near Bourges Following the Nazi occupation of France in World War II he fled to England and under Charles de Gaulle served with the Free French Forces in Europe and North Africa As a pilot he took part in over successful offensives logging over hours of air timeHe was greatly decorated for his bravery in the war receiving many medals and honoursAfter the war he worked in the French diplomatic service and in published his first novel He would become one of France's most popular and prolific writers authoring than thirty novels essays and memoirs some of which he wrote under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar He also wrote one novel under the pseudonym of Fosco Sinibaldi and another as Shatan BogatIn he became secretary of the French Delegation to the United Nations in New York and later in London in In he became Consul General of France in Los AngelesHe is the only person to win the Prix Goncourt twice This prize for French language literature is awarded only once to an author Gary who had already received the prize in for Les racines du ciel published La vie devant soi under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar in The Académie Goncourt awarded the prize to the author of this book without knowing his real identity A period of literary intrigue followed Gary's little cousin Paul Pavlowitch posed as the author for a time Gary later revealed the truth in his posthumous book Vie et mort d'Émile AjarGary's first wife was the British writer journalist and Vogue editor Lesley Blanch author of The Wilder Shores of Love They married in and divorced in From to Gary was married to the American actress Jean Seberg with whom he had a son Alexandre Diego GaryHe also co wrote the screenplay for the motion picture The Longest Day and co wrote and directed the film Kill starring his now ex wife SebergSuffering from depression after Seberg's suicide Gary died of a self inflicted gunshot wound on December in Paris France though he left a note which said specifically that his death had no relation with Seberg's suicide.