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La Traversée des temps, Paradis perdus

 by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt, published on February 3, 2021 by Éditions Albin Michel.


Her favorite quote:

"It is no longer the Almighty who punishes men, it is men who exterminate Nature. From now on, God is excluded from the Apocalypse. Man is enough for it. He manages alone."


Why this book?

  • Because it's a crazy and ambitious project

    that Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt offers us, here is the first book in a series of eight volumes announced.

    The project of a lifetime, he says.

    This

    Traversée des temps

    faces a prodigious challenge: to tell the story of humanity in the form of a novel.

    Scroll through the centuries, embrace the ages, feel the upheavals.

  • Because no sooner will you have met Noam,

    you will want to know everything about him.

    We are caught up in our daily life and that of our clan.

    One might wonder what is interesting to follow the life of a man in the Neolithic over more than 500 pages, but Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt gives us a fascinating story, full of surprises and twists and turns.

    An adventure novel mixed with an intense initiatory quest.

    A real suspense is set up with dramas, betrayals, passions and revenge.

  • Because thanks to this story, we learn so much.

    The whole novel is imbued with philosophical, religious, nature and human references which the author knows how to use so well without boring us.

    The text is teeming with notes giving us additional elements which enrich us and which give technical or historical details.

    The place of nature is very important in history and shows us how the seasons, trees, natural elements, plants had a central place in the daily life of these men.


The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

 Noam was born 8,000 years ago in a lakeside village, in the heart of a paradisiacal nature, he faced the tragedies of his clan the day he met Noura, a fascinating woman.

An event will turn his life upside down by making him immortal.

It is all through time that he will tell us.

Characters.

 Noam.

Pannoam and Elena his parents.

Noura and Tibor.

Barak his uncle.

Places.

 The village of Noam.

Nature, forests, a cave, a lake.

The time.

 8,000 years ago, in the Neolithic period.

The author.

 Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt is one of the most widely read and represented French-speaking authors in the world.

His books, translated into forty-six languages, reach dizzying circulation and his plays are performed regularly in more than fifty countries.

This book was read with

 passion and admiration.

It has been a long time since I felt such a pleasure to read.

I was compulsively turning the pages, I couldn't let go of this book.

I look forward to reading the next volume of this extraordinary literary saga.

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