The 2013 Goncourt Prize, with Goodbye up there, publishes A bright future. A true dive into the horrors of the Cold War and the birth of a new world. A great success.
Some people laughed when Pierre Lemaitre announced this crazy romantic enterprise: “browse” throughout the 20th century, an insane challenge. Today, more than ten years after the announcement, he is very close to the goal. There was the trilogy “Children of Disaster”started in the most beautiful way with Goodbye up therePrix Goncourt in 2013, followed by Colors of fire and of Mirror of our sorrows. Then “The Glorious Years”a tetralogy which attempts to cover the famous Thirty Glorious Years: The Big World (2022), Silence and anger (2023), and, today, its third part with A bright future. The fresco will be complete with the next title. Hats off.
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In A bright futureLemaitre recounts, deciphers and explores a large part of the Trente Glorieuses by focusing on three very close dates: April 19, 1959, May 11 and 15, 1959, which are the three parts. We might as well say it right away, the writer has this…
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