Jean-Michel Genassia is a new name in European prose. Russian readers met this author when his first major book “The Club of Incurable Optimists” was published. French critics called it a great novel, and French high school students awarded him the Prix Goncourt.
For the first time in Russian, the author’s second book—“The Extraordinary Life of Ernesto Che.” The main character of this story, spanning almost a century, is a doctor named Joseph. But the century he is given turns out to be incurably sick. And although a young medic—whom the twists of fate throw into Algeria—manages to treat local peasants and even fight an epidemic of plague, he proves powerless when faced with the “brown plague” that drained Europe of its life, and later, after returning home to socialist Czechoslovakia, in an atmosphere of constant surveillance and suspicion. The only thing in this environment that seems immune to corrosion is love.
But fate brings Joseph together with a mysterious patient—a Latin American called Ramon. Who of them will manage to survive the duel with the system?
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