The Dream Maker

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Based on the true story of Jacques Coeur, The Dream Maker is the story of a Steve Jobs of the Middle Ages. Coeur was the King of France's visionary First Banker who, with his tours of the Far East, his public criticism of the Crusades, and his efforts to develop trade and an operable financial system, contributed to bringing France out of darkness and toward the Renaissance and modernity. The Dream Maker combines the power of a picaresque novel, the precision of a biography and the melancholic charm of a confession.

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The Dream Maker brings to vivid life the exmplary career of a little known medieval paragon, Jacques Coeur, banker, visionary and crafter of the glory that was France.
--The Barnes & Noble Review

"The Dream Maker blends with skill and efficiency politics, business, travel and love. All of this written in a classic, elegant prose, of which Jean-Christophe Rufin has long had a command."
--Le JDD

Rufin bestows such immediacy to this artist of finance, such vitality that we hear the sound of Coeur's own voice telling us his life.
--Tlrama

In this time of the dehumanization of the economy and forced globalization, Jean-Christophe Rufin offers his readers a return to the origins, to when commerce was considered one of man's most beautiful accomplishments, to a time when the wildest dreamer could be a wealthy merchant--Jacques Coeur, the treasurer poet.
--Philippe Chevilley, Les Echos

"Jean-Christophe Rufin has re-established his eloquence and spirit, that of the great novelist of the people, which...enchants his readers. His new novel is both a chivalric odyssey and a brilliant reflection on power."
--Lire

Author Bio

Jean-Christophe Rufin is one of the founders of Doctors Without Borders and a former Ambassador of France in Senegal. He has written numerous bestsellers, includingThe Abyssian, for which he won the Goncourt Prize for a debut novel in 1997. He also won the Goncourt prize in 2001 forBrazil Red. Alison Andersons translations for Europa Editions include novels by Slim Nassib, Amlie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa, 2008) and The Life of the Elves (Europa, 2016) by Muriel Barbery.