ONE PLACE ONE TIME YET THIS DAY VA FOCUS THE LIFE OF A MAN AND HIS FAMILY

Albert is one of those workers that Michelin greatly appreciated because workers and peasants, they were anchored in the ground and away from unions. We will follow him in a very special day, since his wife Suzanne bought a TV in order to watch the report from 5 columns to the one in which appears their eldest son Henry. They asked why the saeur Albert and her husband. Besides all the inhabitants of the small hamlet to be there before the mysterious screen. But the day will not be no surprise for the whole family and especially for the younger son Gilles passionate about books.

This novel is almost a play as there was unity of place and time and that the subject is the human comedy, at least for Gilles. It's primarily a novel of rare sensitivity and humanity. It is rich of all he brings both in terms of daily life, past and especially the experiences of the French soldiers in the Maginot Line defeated, and still delivered to the Germans. Relationships in the family and the couple are beautifully described, as are the reactions consolidation that has marked the peasant world at that time and upset rural landscapes. The magic of television is also made there, because that was how she had lived in the village assemblies, who saw Paris and the world return to their universe. It is a book that can say remarkable, there are moments that are pure anthology and one finds are rare literary qualities and style that will present a summary and will only transcribe only partially.