Used book – The Dream Life of Ernesto G., Jean-Michel Guenassia

1910-2010. Prague, Algiers, Paris. We follow the century-long journey of Joseph Kaplan, a Jewish doctor from Prague, from the guinguettes of Joinville to the plague of Algiers, from war to the collapse of communism. His loves, his commitments, his disillusionments are recounted through the torments of History. And above all, the encounter that changed his life, the one he had one day in 1966 with a Cuban revolutionary, a certain Ernesto G., stranded in the Czech countryside after his African defeat.

In the vein of The Club of Incorrigible Dreamers, Jean-Michel Guenassia retraces the unusual journey of an unwitting hero. We find the effectiveness of his novelistic talent in this captivating and nostalgic fresco, where history and intimacy intertwine.

A page-turner worthy of the most dazzling Yankee sagas, which blends small and grand history in the manner of Latin epics. Philippe Chevilley, Les Echos.