Summary
Gerard Adam: On the existence of god(s) in tram 56
Between autofiction and social commentary, Gérard Adam's short stories were created at the request of the Belgian magazine »Marginales«, which asked contemporary writers to respond to everyday topics with fiction. Every story, from the time Adam spent as a UNPROFOR military doctor in wartime Bosnia, in poorly equipped hospitals in the heart of Africa, or in the comfort of his native Belgium, is a sociopolitical answer. To unemployment, poverty, a corrupt legal system. While reminiscing about distant countries and his poor but exciting childhood, while "babysitting" his grandchildren, while teaching disinterested high school students and fearing "aging Europe", Adam shows his rich and inexhaustible knowledge of several continents, but also his sensitive sensitivity to everything unfair in our societies.
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