November 1918, the trenches of the First World War will soon be a distant memory, two brothers in arms save each other's lives and bind themselves to life and death. But the end of the war does not bring its share of glory and recognition. Rejected by a society that wants to turn the page at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties, their broken faces spoils the party. Abandoned by a state that glorifies the dead and wants to get rid of the living, Albert and Edouard quickly understand that the country can do nothing for them. They meticulously organize their revenge, defying the whole of France and patriotic morality, they devise a nationwide scam of unprecedented audacity and absolute cynicism.

Au revoir là-haut (“see you up there”), a dizzying, cruel and remarkable epic, received immense critical and popular acclaim when it was published in 2013 and won the prestigious Prix Goncourt the same year. It was adapted for the cinema in 2017 by Albert Dupontel.

We read this book in the winter of 2022.