Un si petit monde, sequel to La Grande Escapade, features the same characters. Years have gone by, and the entire planet is glued to the news of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. 1989: the fear of AIDS is spreading; globalization is becoming the norm, it’s the advent of the global village… Is a better future possible? The Gulf War will soon prove that the new world is a lot like the old one…

And while all that is taking place before our eyes, the band of inhabitants (or ex-inhabitants) of Denis Diderot School will redefine their role in society. Janick Lorrain and Michèle Goubert realize that you can live without men. Indecisive Philippe Goubert, hesitating between all possible futures, will suddenly find himself grappling with having found his vocation. Geneviève Coudrier seems unmovable, but the secret she is guarding so carefully is what will suddenly move everyone’s goalposts…

Confused feelings, attraction for both death and life, bitterness and pleasure. In this new book, the reader will find everything that makes Jean-Philippe Blondel’s novels so appealing.