Club of Incorrigible Optimists
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Club of Incorrigible Optimists
6.99 €
Jean-Michel Genasse is a new name in European prose, author of the novels The Club of Incorrigible Optimists, The Amazing Life of Ernesto Che, and Cheat Death. French critics called his book great, and the French Lyceumists awarded the author the Goncourt Prize.
The hero of the novel is twelve years old. The time is Paris in the early sixties. And this is the notorious age of transition, when everything - school, communication with parents and life in general - is given difficult. Michel Marini is no different from his peers, except for a passion for photography and a self-conscious love of reading. And he also has a secret hideout - it is the back room of a Parisian bistro. There, strange people who have fled from countries separated from the free world by the Iron Curtain argue, pine, play chess while waiting for their fate to be decided. Surprisingly, it is here, in this room, dubbed the Club of incorrigible optimists, that the power lines of the era cross.
The hero of the novel is twelve years old. The time is Paris in the early sixties. And this is the notorious age of transition, when everything - school, communication with parents and life in general - is given difficult. Michel Marini is no different from his peers, except for a passion for photography and a self-conscious love of reading. And he also has a secret hideout - it is the back room of a Parisian bistro. There, strange people who have fled from countries separated from the free world by the Iron Curtain argue, pine, play chess while waiting for their fate to be decided. Surprisingly, it is here, in this room, dubbed the Club of incorrigible optimists, that the power lines of the era cross.
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