Title : The Beating Heart of the World - Sébastien Spitzer - book

• Summary

In the 1860s, London, the heart of the world's most powerful empire, gorges itself on the weak. Its streets reek of poverty, insurrection, and opium. In the city's suburbs, a bastard is taken in by Charlotte, an Irish woman fleeing famine. Out of love for him, she steals, lies, and prostitutes herself without ever revealing the mystery of his birth. The illegitimate child is the hidden son of a famous man pursued by all the police forces of Europe.

His name is Freddy, and his father is Karl Marx. While Marx merely theorizes about revolution in books, Freddy takes up arms with the oppressed in Ireland.

With The Beating Heart of the World, Sébastien Spitzer takes the pulse of an era where the all-powerful nature of money is destroying people, friendships, and the hope for better days.

• EAN : 9782253079774
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