The Incorrigible Optimists Club (Guenassia Jean-Michel); Atlantic, 2014

Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini – amateur photographer and compulsive reader – is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world – of rock ‘n’ roll and of the Algerian War. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel’s concentration is not on the game, but on the huddle of men gathered in the shadows of a back room…

Past the bar, behind a partly drawn curtain, a group of eastern European men gather, where under a cirrus of smoke and over the squares of chess boards, they tell of their lives before France – of lovers and wives, children and ambitions, all exiled behind the Iron Curtain. Listening to this band of survivors and raconteurs, Michel is introduced to a world beyond the boundaries of his childhood experience, a world of men made formidable in the face of history, ideas and politics: the world of the Incorrigible Optimists Club.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781848875425
Автор(ы)	Guenassia Jean-Michel
Вес	0.45
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2014
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Atlantic
Издательство	Atlantic
Кол-во страниц	624
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	624
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая