A novel of training

At the dawn of the XXth century, from London to the Southern Africa by way of Edimbourg, the tragicomic adventures of an overpowering hero. A novel of training in homage to Dickens, a crazy, teeming family column and taken away, carried by breath and luminous prose of George Hagen, the author of The Family Lament .

Novel of George Hagen
Editions Belfond
:: History::
This novel narrates misfortunes d a resourceful kid, Tom Bedlam, whose poor childhood in the alleyways of the poor district of Vauxhall never starts optimism. It will be followed, him and its family, in the course of animated existence, from London to Scotland by way of the Southern Africa and up to the trenches of 1914. Of secrets of family in revelations, of revenge in reconciliations, uninterrupted family adventure, in the course of existence tossed around by the irreversible walk of the century A column bright, galloping and filled with humour.
sources: Belfond 2008