Alain Gerber

The children’s novel Le roi du jazz (The king of jazz), written by Alain Gerber, is set in New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century, and tells the story of Léon and Noël, two friends for life that dream of becoming musicians, but Léon is black and poor, while Noël is white and comes from a wealthy family. The novel tells their adventures, on the background of the racist society and the hate between black and white people in the United States at the beginning of last century.