Petit pays: Awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (Le livre de poche, 34618

Before all that happened I will tell about here, there was only the happiness that didn’t have to be explained. If you asked me, how are you, I answered: good.” At that time, Gabriel met with his friends on the street, experiencing his childhood like in a paradise cocoon. Until his family broke and almost at the same time his small country, Burundi, had to endure unimaginable cruelties in a military coup. And his mother lost his mind. Twenty years later, after escaping with his sister to a far, foreign France, Gabriel returns to a world he believed long disappeared. But he finds something there again that he thought irrevocably lost. – “Little Land” is an overwhelming book, full of terror and bliss, kindness and eternal loss – a piece of French world literature in the very best sense