beautiful story with history, love, adventure, human relations ... and say that Brazil could have been a French colony. It remains also in Rio castle ruins
for me, this book is a masterpiece in every respect. The story: a little known episode in the French conquest of the Americas with the discovery of "noble savages" as Montaigne appoint, with the conquests and the Portuguese ambitions in the same
Jean Christophe Rufin avoided, thanks to his talent, the pitfall of a kind of remake of Paul and Virginie among cannibals! And there was the effect ability to keep awake the reader's interest for 500 pages. As part of the action is a island off the c
Once again, Jean-Christophe Rufin demonstrates his art of storytelling. Again, the style is neat and it's nice to see that one can still write novels in French by using various and varied words that are evidence of the richness of the French language
Fighting between Catholics and Protestants, followers of opposition between civilization and nature lovers, the gap between military and lower world mobsters: this historical novel while bipolarity has difficulty civilized pole (in the the occurrence
Not bad, but I expected a little more. Rufin is that makes us the blow of thesis novel: it illustrates an idea. I did not find in this book we find this romantic interrogation - in a similar register - at Le Clézio even in Segalen. Heroin, for friend
Through the fate of two children, an unknown portion of the history of France is told with a strand of humanism, sometimes tinged with irony to these heroes dreaming of absolute magnitude. All this is well balanced and expertly: the plot to the perfe