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” and “Deception-Death”. Critics around the world unanimously recognized The Club of Incorrigible Optimists as a brilliant book, and French lyceum students awarded the author the Goncourt Prize. When Genassia wrote “The Club...”, he already understood that the novel would have a continuation, but for many years he did not know how this story would develop. And then he came to Moscow - and everything became crystal clear...Paris, 1960s. Michel Marini, a teenager from the Incorrigible Optimists Club, has grown older and is already studying at university. A romantic period had begun in his life and throughout the world, an innocent time of love and hope. The promise of freedom is in the air—that same “optimism.” The club of incorrigible optimists, however, has scattered all over the world - and Michel will also have to travel in search of his personal dreams and utopias of the entire 20th century. Algeria and Morocco, Italy, Israel and Russia, the intersection of lives, lost and regained ideals, dreams, love and forgiveness: in the new novel by Jean-Michel Guenassius, the sequel to The Club of Incorrigible Optimists, the heroes are forever searching for their promised land, in which the most the main thing is not the land, but the promise. For the first time in Russian!