by Jean-Michel Guenassia · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253159643
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«Le Club des Incorrigibles Optimistes» is the novel by Jean-Michel Guenassia, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (736 pages, in French).
Michel Marini is twelve years old in 1959 and spends his days at the Balto café in Paris, where he discovers in the back room a chess club made up of exiles from the other side of the Iron Curtain. Between games and confidences, the boy draws closer to a shared secret that will mark his life. A story about friendship, exile and hope.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2009. This French edition was published on 24 August 2011.
Recommended for reading groups and for those who enjoy historical fiction set in 1950s Paris.
Jean-Michel Guenassia is a French writer.
