The Prix Goncourt 2013; and by reading it, one can easily imagine why. I'll start by explaining that I did not buy that novel when I learned that he had in "my" city and I went to meet him: the period of the 14-18 war is actually not my forte. Well, imagine that I really enjoyed this book. The story, which begins in the final days of World War demonstrates the very first pages that history will not be a fairy tale. Backstabbing and betrayal in the first chapter. And it is this strange event than amazing that will extend into the postwar period. Careerism, political, vanity, unconsciousness are the keywords of a hard story, but that illuminates the greed of some men on their contemporaries and the destructive force of some owners of power: the same power.
