by Howard Buten · Blackie Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9788494167645
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Burt, an eight-year-old boy, is confined to a children's detention center for an act he committed. The novel explores Burt's loneliness and his struggle against the incomprehension of adults, who transform his dreams into clinical symptoms and his love into a crime. Through emotive prose, the story raises the question of who will rescue Burt from his confinement. Considered a modern classic in France, this book has been translated into 16 languages and has sold over 2 million copies in France.
Howard Buten was an American author living in France. He was also a psychologist, a clown, and a violin player. Buten was the author of five novels, the first of which, entitled When I Was Five I Killed Myself, was published in 1981 and turned into a film under its French title Quand j'avais cinq ans je m'ai tué in 1994.
