Rebecca Stead Nathan
Translated from English (USA) by Anne Delcourt
Released in January 2011
248 pages
13.50 euros
Roman teenagers from 11 years
Themes: Friendship, Puzzle, Time
About the author: Rebecca Stead raised in New York. Small, she already wrote. She invented stories and fun to record jokes, snatches of conversation. Subsequently, she pursued a career as a lawyer and continued to write during his spare time (Histories Very Serious, "she says). Only after breaking his computer and lost all the stories that she decided that it contained write something new and joyful. She then reread all the books she loved children, to start writing a lot, take a taste and she really became a writer. "Yesterday you understand" is his second novel and first translated into French.
"M, is difficult. More than I had expected, even with your help. But I train, and advance it. I come to save the life of your friend, and also mine. " Here's what Miranda discovers one morning before leaving for school in her room. But how this stranger could he go home? And when? 1979. Miranda lives with her mother and stepfather in a neighborhood of New York. She shares her daily life with his best friend Sal until the day it is violently strike for no apparent reason. Since the relationship between Sal and Miranda deteriorate. Then came the enigmatic letters from a mysterious stranger who seems to know the future of Miranda ...
A puzzle to reconstruct an investigation to solve, to save a friendship ... these are unusual and touching themes of "Yesterday you understand" , Newberry Medal winner of 2010, prices of children's literature in the United States. Against a background of science fiction and adventure extra-temporal Yesterday you understand offers a funny and strange tale that is sure to solicit the curiosity of the boldest!
"The most beautiful experience we can live is that the mystery of things."
Albert Einstein (I See the World, 1931)
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