"A young boy forms a friendship with an African mystical healer called Midnight, until a betrayal changes the course of John Zarco Stewart's life, sending him from Africa to the plantations of America's Deep South."
"A young boy forms a friendship with an African mystical healer called Midnight, until a betrayal changes the course of John Zarco Stewart's life, sending him from Africa to the plantations of America's Deep South."@en
"In Zimler's dazzling tale, John Zarco Stewart is an impish child of bold inquisitiveness, the unwitting inheritor of a faith shrouded in 300 years of secrecy. Dark and bitter events put an end to his innocence and almost destroy him, but he is healed by the arrival in his household of a mysterious young man from Africa. Midnight is a freed slave brought to Porto by John's seafaring father, and he becomes John's greatest friend, ultimately determining the course of his life. But as John grows to manhood Midnight is lost to him, Napoleon's armies invade Portugal, and John's fragile peace is sha."@en
"Alors que les armées de Napoléon envahissent le Portugal, la vie de John Zarco Stewart vole en éclats. Cet été-là, il découvre que sa famille est d'origine juive, que l'esclave Minuit disparaît dans des circonstances inexpliquées et que son père trouve la mort de façon étrange. Quelques années plus tard, il consacre toute son énergie à élucider ce qui s'est réellement passé lors de ce fameux été."