The missus is on a great campaign of book reorganisation, and apart from clouds of dust that sets yrs. trly. sneezing, has just turned up a slim volume that the Inlaw Paw received as a freebie for joining the Folio Soc about 25 years ago.
It's called Novocento, and turns out to be a French translation of the monologue by Alessandro Baricco on which the film The Legend of 1900 was based.
I never knew we had it.