Javier Mendoza has learned a new word and he doesn’t like it. But as his fifth grade class explores the shocking history in countries ranging from Armenia to Sudan, Javier realizes that the past – and even the present – is telling him a story that he can’t ignore. | Banned in 2008 by the Sudanese authorities, this novel now appears in French. It is a great novel, a testimony from inside made by a committed intellectual, written in a style which mixes realism and metaphor, poetry and hardship. |