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Klub Nenapravitelných Optimistů (2009)

by Jean-Michel Guenassia(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Argo

review 1: Cette lecture est un long moment de plaisir. C'est une promenade d'un autre temps, dans un contexte chaleureux et florissant, mais toujours marqué par les blessures du passé, de la guerre, de ses trahisons, de la perte des valeurs et des utopies aussi. J'ai dégusté chaque instant de ce livre, je m'y sentais à l'aise, je n'avais plus envie d'en sortir, et pourtant la lecture est très longue, plus de 21 heures d'écoute, mais sérieusement je n'ai pas vu le temps passer !
review 2: I enjoyed this book so much that I'm feeling quite bereft now that I've finished it... I loved the narrator's voice - an adolescent growing up in the 60s - as well as the stories about the people he meets at a chess club - refugees from the Eastern block. These friends are not on... morely older than himself but have survived the sociopolitical upheaval in their countries. There is espionnage, danger, romance, betrayal, true love, true friendship... and somehow the writer manages to weave this all together. It's not a Historical Novel that is totally true to the era, but a fantastic novel in which a boy growing up sees political ideals, experience and reality confront one another. less

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