Early 1960s, Bernard and Alex are two brothers but do not have the same surname. Bernard is called Appelbaum and his father was deported to Auschwitz in 1942. Alex is called Zygleman and his father met his death in 1949 in a plane that crashed in the Azores. Their mother loved both men in a story reminiscent of Jules et Jim. In an interlocking of resonating narratives recalling the Hasidic tradition, between fiction and truth, this coming-of-age novel is a quest through memories and the archives of the past, with its absences and disappearances.
In the presence of the author.
In conversation with Frédérique Berthet, author and professor of film studies at the Université Paris-Cité. Reading by Laurent Poitrenaux, actor.
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