Exercises. Macouen I.

“Exercises” - an emotional psychological drama for unhurried reading with elements of the biography of the author himself, structurally resembling scattered pieces of mosaic.

in the middle of the twentieth century, when the world still calculates the price of World War II, the life of eleven -year -old Roland Baines turns over It’s up to his head.

Father-Valnoy takes him out of Libya and defines him to the English boarding school, where his vulnerability attracts the young teacher Fortepian, Miriam Cornell. The irrational and tragic first love with a red thread will pass through the boy’s life.

Much later, when Roland's wife disappears, leaving him alone with his little son, he will look for answers in his youth and in the history of his family.

Ian Mcueun describes the chronicle of turning events in the history of Europe from the 21st to the 21st century through the prism of the life of Roland, a characteristic representative of his generation.