Club of incorrigible optimists

Jean-Michel Genasia is a new name in European prose, the author of the novels “Club of Incorrigible Optimists”, “An amazing life of Ernesto Che”, “Deception-death”. French critics called his book the Great, and the French lyceum students awarded the author of the Gonkurov Prize. The hero of the novel is twelve years old. Time - Paris of the beginning of the sixties. And this is the notorious transitional age, when everything - school, communication with parents and in general life is difficult. Michelle Marini is no different from his peers, except for the passion for photography and selfless love for reading. And he also has a secret shelter - this is the back room of the Parisian bistro. There, strange people who fled from countries separated from the free world with an iron curtain, argue, yearn, play chess in anticipation when their fate decides. Surprisingly, it is here, in this room, nicknamed the club of incorrigible optimists, that the power lines of the era are crossed