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  Throughout the book, Gloria refers to him as Monsieur Blaise, further instilling this belief that he is a French citizen.
  
  As they continue on their perilous mission, Koumaïl and Gloria meet a whole cast of characters, as they are always arriving in new housing complexes full of refugee families of all cultures and backgrounds. It was this accident that claimed the life of Blaise’s mother, a French woman and a passenger on the train who passed him on to Gloria to care for and to raise as her own.
  
  The novel begins in 1992.

  For the first eleven years of his life, Blaise has gone by the name Koumaïl.
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  • Niccolò Ammaniti

    Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. She studied Modern Letters at the University of Paris X–Nanterre, and during her education, created writing workshops for disadvantaged children, for which she eventually received the Prix Fondation of France.

    Des traductions de certains de ses livres existent en chinois, portugais, néerlandais, anglais, slovène, espagnol, roumain, italien, coréen, japonais, slovaque, allemand, turc et catalan.

    Ses romans ont obtenu de très nombreux prix en France et à l'étranger, notamment le prix Sorcières et le prix France Télévisions en 2004, le Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book et le ALA Best Books For Young Adults (États-Unis) en 2007 et 2012 et le prix Andersen(it) (Italie) en 2009.

    Elle est lauréate en 2017 de la première édition du Prix Vendredi[2], qui récompense un ouvrage jeunesse pour public adolescent[2], pour L'aube sera grandiose, roman jeunesse sur la transmission[3].

A Time of Miracles

A Time of Miraclesby Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated from French, tells the story of Blaise Fortune and his caretaker Gloria Bohème.

They also learn music from an opera singer and prayer from a monk. He knows that Gloria is not his biological mother, and he loves to hear her tell the story of how she rescued him from a terrible train accident, which the two often refer to as The Terrible Accident. If you are the author or publisher and would like us to update this biography, send the complete text and we will replace the old with the new.

He has grown up in the Caucasus, a region between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, with his guardian Gloria. He also attempts to teach himself the language, managing to get a few key phrases down. However, still feeling strong ties to France through his family history, he seeks to learn everything he can about the country.

Most of the refugees are farmers, so they share what knowledge they have. The complexes organize a kind of school system for the children where they learn basic information, mostly about animals and plants and their various medicinal properties. Gloria even went so far as to steal French passports to further cement the idea that this was her son’s identity, and to give him hope and opportunity for the future.

Throughout the novel, Koumaïl is driven by the idea of finding his mother and discovering his true heritage.

In the end, Koumaïl wonders whether he should be angry with Gloria for lying to him, or appreciate his mother’s protection and the wonderful story she created to shield him from the realities of the world.

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