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La vengeance des orages
by Sébastien Spitzer, published on August 18, 2022 by Éditions Albin Michel.
His favorite quote:
This ball is the most powerful... blinding... and hottest thing ever created... since man has been on earth.
Why this book?
Because this story is taken from a true story,
Sébastien Spitzer telling us in the preamble: "I crossed out the dates, shook up a few details, made up first names, but basically everything is true."
Because the author knows how to make us vibrate
when he recounts the descent into hell of a man crushed by history.
Because his narration is punctuated by a rhythmic writing.
His romantic breath makes us share the war neurosis of Eatherly, this hero who unscrews.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
August 6, 1945: America drops the first atomic bomb in history on Hiroshima.
Claude Eatherly, pilot, took part in this military operation.
But it was as a repentant hero that he entered history.
The voice of Hanaé, a young victim, exacerbates her guilt.
Characters.
Claude Robert Eatherly, pilot, veteran of the US army His wife Anna, of Italian origin.
Hanaé, a schoolgirl from Hiroshima, victim and bad conscience of the pilot.
Places.
Tinian Island Military Base, Waco Clinic, Hiroshima.
The time.
From 1945 to 1955.
The author.
Sébastien Spitzer is a journalist, major reporter for Canal Plus, M6 and TF1.
At 40, he convinced himself that the time had come to realize his dream: to write a novel.
He is the author of These dreams that we trample (2017), The beating heart, (2019), The fever (2020).
This book was read with
the feeling of sharing a tragic, absurd and inhuman situation.
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