The Club of Incorrigible Dreamers - Jean-Michel Guenassia

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Condition notes : Very slight signs of wear on the exterior, very slight pencil annotation on the first page

Summary : Michel Marini was twelve years old in 1959. It was the era of rock'n'roll and the Algerian War. He was an amateur photographer, a compulsive reader, and a foosball player at the Balto in Denfert-Rochereau. In the back room of the bistro, he met Igor, Leonid, Sacha, Imre, and the others. These men had crossed the Iron Curtain to save their lives. They had abandoned their loves, their families, betrayed their ideals, and everything they were. They found themselves in Paris in this backroom chess club also frequented by Kessel and Sartre. And they were bound by a terrible secret that Michel would eventually discover. This encounter definitively changed the young boy's life. Because they were all incorrigible optimists.

A portrait of a generation, a meticulous reconstruction of an era, a bittersweet chronicle of adolescence: Jean-Michel Guenassia achieves an astonishing first novel, both in the scope of the project and in the authenticity that breathes through its pages.

Genre : Historical Fiction

Publisher : Albin Michel

Format : Paperback

Publication date : 2009

Number of pages : 759

ISBN : 9782226193926