Jean-Michel Guenassia is a writer who has rapidly gained popularity in recent years, the author of the novels “The Club of Incorrigible Optimists”, “The Amazing Life of Ernesto Che”, “Deceive Death”, etc. French critics called his book “The Club of Incorrigible Optimists” great, and French lyceum students awarded their Goncourt Prize. His new novel, The Influence of David Bowie on the Destinies of Young Creatures, tells a funny, touching and almost unbelievable story. The main character of the book is Paul, a teenager who loves music; in the evenings he improvises on the piano in a nightclub. Otherwise, everything seems to be the same as everyone else’s: school, growing up, problems. But the family is not entirely ordinary: Paul has two mothers, he has never even seen his father, and Paul’s classmate and best friend assures him that he is head over heels in love with him. In a word, not life, but a minefield! And Paul still doesn’t know where his search for his father will lead him and what the legendary androgynous David Bowie has to do with it! For the first time in Russian!