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L'ennui des après-midi sans fin

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« Enfant, j’ai eu la chance de m’ennuyer. Je n’avais pas école l’après-midi et chez moi à la maison pas d'écran ni de télévision. J’ai donc dû apprendre à déployer des trésors d’imagination pour m’inventer des jeux et des passe-temps. Je garde de ces jours immobiles, le souvenir d’une période enchantée où j’ai pu remplir à ras-bord le coffre-fort de mon imaginaire. L’ennui de mes après-midis d'enfance était un voyage où le temps m’appartenait, un espace où j'ai fabriqué d'immenses rêves. »
Gaël Faye est auteur-compositeur-interprète. Il a publié Petit Pays en 2016, récompensé notamment par le Prix Goncourt des lycéens.
Le CD de la chanson « L’ennui des après-midi sans fin » et sa version instrumentale accompagne la lecture de ce livre.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 2020

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Gaël Faye

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French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gaël studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music. He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rumba... In 2018 he received the prestigious Victoires de la Musique Award. Small Country is his first novel. It was a huge bestseller in France, winning the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2016, and is being published in thirty territories worldwide.

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August 2, 2025
desejo tardes sem fim, países imaginários e sonhos ilimitados
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52 reviews2 followers
September 16, 2023
La poésie de Gaël Faye m'aura toujours... Un livre qui s'écoute, qui s'admire grâce aux magnifiques illustrations d'Hippolyte et qui crée une petite parenthèse dans la journée.
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883 reviews34 followers
June 26, 2024
Lido em português como "o tédio das tardes sem fim"

Livro lindo, daqueles que lhe dão novas perspectivas de realidade, tempo e espaço.

Poesia mesmo.
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July 20, 2024
ilustrações incríveis sobre momentos que eu vivi na infância: tédio fantástico.

o tédio exercita a imaginação.
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