"I am 13 years a quarter and I am the only one who can save
the world if I want. " Posted
in 2009 by Albin Michel.
Reissued in 2010 with a new cover (see right)
392 pages
My opinion falls on a Sunday
I present today a saga -almost-favorite. "Almost" because when they are reluctant to stamp a badge of this noble book is that it does not have one! But he has taken much.
Drimm Thomas is the work of Didier van Cauwelaert , an author who still received the Prix Goncourt in 1994 One way . Ok, there was an eternity but it still shows that this man did not write that the youth, the bottle and can bring a touch of age at a children's book.
And it feels right from the start, after Thomas Drimm is not childish. Van Cauwelaert created a world not so futuristic that it was imagined in the air. It's smart and sarcastic. is a kind of exaggerated version of today's world. It reminds me a bit in 1984 with Big Brother . It is therefore in a consumer society that runs everything. more we advance in the book, the more one discovers the workings of the system. It's exciting. How and what way, I'll explain.
Thomas is an obese child , his father alcoholic, his mother psy the local casino. It should address the winners of the establishment, so they do not petent the shot. His career is important to her and she has already cheated on her husband. Even Thomas knows. One afternoon, he will play with his kite XR9 (yeah, that's very R2D2 but in fact there is nothing exceptional). A storm rises, an old man said hello and patratra, suddenly, the kite falls .... pile-pile on the guy and kills ! Thomas does not know what to do! Her father will kill him, he had bought his kite! But Thomas is not stupid, he took the kite string, tie them to one side, a small boat that goes away and the other, the old man. The boat leaves the body. No trace, Thomas goes home. He is 12 and he is a murderer! But now, the story does not end there. When he returns to his room at night, his teddy bear starts talking to her ! The old he killed is not dead and his mind was mentally rematerializes in the plush! He then explains that Leo is Picton, the inventor of electronic chips that anyone over the age of 13 must wear (to capture the energy of the person, energy that will return the machines to his death. .. yes, it's quite complex). Picton asked him for his help save the world! Bam!
If that's not the start smashing and gives you not want to read the book, I eat my hat. I'm frankly a lot of fun throughout the first part. The universe is frankly shifted, a lot of picks on today's society . I think you can read this book for the story itself but there are also some sobering observations of the author. Some examples are better than long words
True, there is a law called the Child Protection: When no children, was the right to divorce. (Page 13)
Anyway, with a father who drinks, I have no future: it seems that it is hereditary and you catch in the alcoholism womb. Except he began to drink after my birth, but it does not matter: it's written in my academic record and, with something like that, I would never go very far. It's always a son of non-drinker who gets the job for me I ask. By dint of being denied, I will eventually put me to drink myself, I would become hereditary, and when everything is back to normal, I would not lie over my file. (Page 14)
The first half of the novel is small sip of remarks like that. I found that it faded in advancing the narrative. I find it damage and that probably explains a lot-almost-my favorite. Perhaps the novel begins and ends too much worse.
But make no mistake, it's still a must children's literature. It's entertaining and intelligent at the same time. The other strong point is the characters . They are rather ambiguous, we hesitate some time to catalog them "good" or "bad", even for major figures such as Thomas Picton or Leo, who invented the teddy bear. There are also Brenda's neighbor of 28 years which Thomas He is madly in love. You see this trio of heroes is atypical, as are their adventures.
Drimm Thomas, so it's a saga that I highly recommend that you have 12 years, 28 years or 77 years. Volume 2 was published this month by Editions Albin Michel. I will tell you more soon! I hope I have read before going to Youth Salon de Montreuil (early December) because I saw that Mr. Van Cauwelaert went there in dedications (after long struggled on the website of the worst designed I've seen this month ... click on the link, you see the maze, you must type at random to find nothing but the list of publishers and authors who go to this show). Anyway, the whole is to thrive in this kind of event. Maybe I should find new nuggets there, then convert them to chronicle here.
Overall rating: 9 / 10
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