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Stories Set in Brest
Two cities share one name: this is the Belarusian Brest, fortress city on the Bug River, not the French naval port. Its fame is military — the fortress held in 1941 and the catalogued titles lean French by name-twin accident. 150 Milligrams and Querelle top its credits. Open Brest on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 1 book and 5 movies set in Brest.
150 Milligrams
In the hospital where she works in Brest France a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.
Querelle
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the…
Love at Sea
During her holiday in Brest a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance each living his life him in…
Hornblower: Loyalty
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Paris-Brest
Colin returns to Brest to discover that the petty theft he committed five years previously allowed his opportunistic parents to place his grandmother Manou in a home to die and lay their hands on her fortune. Now he is…
Querelle of Brest
Querelle of Brest was first published anonymously in 1947 and limited to 460 numbered copies. It is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder. Its protagonist,…
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