The Boys Who Woke Up Early – A.D Hopkins

Je lis beaucoup en anglais, par goût surtout, et parfois pour le travail. J’ai la chance, dans ces cas là, d’avoir accès à des exemplaires numériques appelé « ARC » pour advanced reading copy grâce à NetGalley, site sur lequel je donne mon avis… en anglais bien sûr ! Alors ici, dans un premier temps je mettrais les même versions de ces avis. Il est évident que si cela pose un quelconque souci je considérerais d’en faire une version en français, dès que possible !

All my thanks to NetGalley and Imbrifex Books, because here is one of my favorite books of 2019!
The immersive story-telling is amazing and I still hear my heart pounding when I think of some of the early (!) passages of this novel as well as the laters.
With economy and greatness A.D Hopkins gives us a well-documented, gripping, realistic, hell of of story about racisme, prejudices, growing up (althought it is not, in my opinion, the main theme) and more. Guns, law enforcement, police work, segregation, teenage in a small town of Virginia in late 50’s/early 60’s can give, I supposed, a good canvas for a good story, but the narrative and the talent of the author give it its greatness.
We laugh some times, we are scared some other times. Scared for the characters that we learned to appreciate, for the events to escalate, for innocence to be crushed.
And there is suspens too in this novel, a lot! Told you: my heart was pounding hard, my breath was heavy…
I loved how Hopkins settled his story, step by step, events by events, slowly, with efficiency ; never letting us know where we are truly going, and never losing track of where he wants the story to go. Genius.
Please, read the book, learn a great deal, have a good time and spread the knowledge.

Vous trouverez la quatrième de couverture ICI, ainsi que des informations sur l’auteur. Le livre est publié depuis mars 2019, au moins en version numérique, chez Imbrifex Books.

Je me tiendrai au courant d’une éventuelle traduction en français pour les récalcitrants ;-).