Un cl sico autobiogr fico que relata la incre ble evasi n de un hombre que vivi una aut ntica odisea por perseguir aquello que nunca debi perder: la libertad.

En 1931, Henri Charri re, apodado Papillon por el tatuaje en forma de mariposa de su pecho, fue condenado a prisi n por un asesinato que no hab a cometido. Sentenciado a cadena perpetua en una colonia penal de la Guayana Francesa, en su mente solo cab a una meta: escapar. Tras varios intentos fallidos de fuga a lo largo de los a os, fue enviado a la llamada Isla del Diablo, de donde ning n recluso se hab a evadido jam s... hasta su llegada.

La lucha por la libertad de Papillon sigue siendo una de las m s incre bles haza as que el ingenio, el tes n y la valent a humanos hayan demostrado jam s. Su relato dio lugar a esta extraordinaria autobiograf a, la odisea de un hombre inocente para perseguir lo que nunca debi perder: la libertad.

Rese as:

La mayor haza a de todos los tiempos.

Auguste Le Breton

Un cl sico moderno de coraje.

The New Yorker

Una extraordinaria historia de aventuras.

The New York Review of Books

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Henri Charri re, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit.

Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.

Charri re's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was first published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic--the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.