Adrien Bosc Boeken

On 27 October 1949, a Lockheed Constellation passenger plane left Paris for New York. Hours later, it disappeared on approach to its scheduled stopover in the Azores. It was found on a mountainside five miles from its intended landing zone. There were no survivors.Among those lost in the accident were heavyweight boxer Marcel Cerdan flying to New York for a world title fight; 30-year-old virtuoso violinist Ginette Neveu; Kay Kamen, Walt Disney's merchandising tsar; five Basque shepherds emigrating to America; a pilot who ran missions for the Free French during the war.Constellation tells the untold true stories of the forty-eight men and women who died on board, and paints a moving portrait of their place in the changing post-war world and of their hopes and dreams for the life awaiting them across the Atlantic.Adrien Bosc's magnetic debut novel is a memorial to an air disaster that happened half a century ago. But it is also a love song to the forgotten lives that every tragedy scatters around it like so much debris, and a poignant investigation into the nature of collective tragedy.

Two hundred and fifty members of a new society, floating, stranded at sea, heading for unknown lands, fleeing a Europe in flames.

Le 4e de couv. indique : "27 octobre 1949. La nouvel avion d'Air France, le Constellation, accueille trente-sept passagers. Le lendemain, il disparaît dans l'archiper des Açores. Aucun survivant. Parmi les victimes, des personnalités - Marcel Cerdan, l'amant boxeur d'Édith Piaf, Ginette Neveu, violoniste prodige - , des anonymes. A priori, tous des étrangers les uns pour les autres, que le hasard a réunis. Pourtant, en adoptant un certain point de vue, on peut découvrir des enchaînements de causes infimes, des liens inattendus, des coïncidences. Et voir ce fait divers tragique prendre des allures de destin."