Les fils d' Avrom

" Prix Goncourt 1955 for "Les Eaux Mêlées", second volume of his diptych "Les Fils d'Avrom", Roger Ikor tells us the story of a Jewish family who emigrated to France. Roger Ikor's style is powerful, he takes us into the universe of his characters and makes us feel all their hopes, their emotions, their doubts, and all this through the history of France, the two world wars and a violently anti-Semitic period. In order to follow this epic and grasp its full depth, it is necessary to read both stories. "La Greffe de Printemps" evokes Yankel fleeing his native Russia and the pogroms that followed his arrival on French soil. We share with him all the difficulties in integrating and all the will it takes to live in a country whose codes, customs and religion we do not share, even though it is a country that is the bearer of all democratic values and enjoys a positive global aura. In "Les Eaux Mêlées", the second and third generation, following marriages, the children assimilated and definitively French, having made the national novel their own, will be able to take part in the adventure of the republican meritocracy. It's a really beautiful story in novel form and very well written."

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