A novel about a teenager during the war of Algeria. The hero is the youngest son of a family of small traders who will live the transition to distribution. He will also live his first love in an atmosphere a egghead strand. He will also attend bougnat the neighborhood in which refugees in the countries of the east after the Hungarian revolt created a chess club. We will also find the true particularly Slavic soul.
Finally a book that deserves its price. It is the first French book that m 'has reconciled with real literature, the quality of the characters, writing, environments that feel the true and make us relive a particularly powerful story, and that feeling is real beautiful.
