Club of incorrigible optimists. Genassion Jean-Michel

Jean-Michel Genassia is a writer who has rapidly gaining popularity in recent years, the author of the novels “Club of Incorrigible Optimists”, “An amazing life of Ernesto Che” and “Deception-death”. Critics around the world unanimously recognized the “Club of incorrigible optimists” with a brilliant book, and French lyceum students awarded the author of the Goncurovsky Prize.

the hero of the novel is twelve years old. Paris, the beginning of the 1960s, 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 of reading. And he also has a secret shelter - the back room of the Parisian bistro. There are 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.