El padre franc�s

Two men—one a strict banker and the president of the Jewish community in Paris, the other an exuberant artist—buried alongside each other in the Montparnasse cemetery become friends in the afterlife in this inventive novel based on real figures. Author Alain Elkann describes the dialogue his father and the creative bohemian Roland Topor might have, and he finds harmony in the clash between his father, a man of stern measures, and the unruly artist. What could have been a story of grief beco...