Johnny and the bomb

Johnny and the bomb is the third book of the trilogy of the Adventures of Johnny Maxwell of the writer English Terry Pratchett, appeared in France in 1997 at Atalante, translated by Patrick Couton.

Original work was published in 1996 under the title Johnny and the bomb .

Synopsis

Johnny Maxwell is 12 years old and lives in the English small town of Blackbury. His/her parents are in marital Crisis period , and often only leave it. His/her buddies are Bloblotte, which has problems of weight and pirate of the video games, Bigmac, the last skinhead of Blackbury which lives the most dreadful building of the area, Not-of man, which is black but which never says man and Kirsty, a girl too much intelligent and brilliant to have friends.

Johnny and its friends bring their assistance to Mrs. Tachyon, a SDF of Blackbury, and find themselves in 1941. They will try to change the course of the events (bombardment of Blackbury) without too chambouler the History.

Topics

Topics evoked in the novel:

the Voyage in time, and the very traditional temporal paradox, or Paradox of the grandfather (to meet its grandfather, to change the past and not to be born). The Pants of Time (a decision allows a moment given to choose a leg or the other) are also approached in Annals of the Disc-World.
the War: The characters find in 1941 pennies the German bombardments in England
the Racisme: Not-in man which is black and Kirsty which is a girl are regarded as inferiors in 1941, whereas they are the most cultivated characters band

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