Hundert Millionen Jahre und ein Tag

2023 Prix Goncourt winner. Jean-Baptiste Andrea is regarded in France as one of the most promising authors of his generation.

Jean-Baptiste Andrea tells an unforgettable story about a man's dream of life, which begins in a village in the Pyrenees and leads into the mountainous region of the French Alps. A beautifully enchanting book about friendship, hope, and belief in oneself.

Summer 1954. Stan is pursuing an unremarkable career as a paleontologist at the University of Paris. Since childhood, when he discovered a fossil in the village in the Pyrenees forty years ago, he has hoped that something great will happen in his life. Now he hears about a story that captivates him: a "dragon," a massive dinosaur skeleton said to be trapped deep within a glacier. What if he finally makes the discovery of a lifetime? And so the university professor travels to the French Alps. Together with his friend Umberto, his assistants, and an old mountain guide, he sets off on a summer day. But Stan is not a mountaineer. And time is running out. As cold, altitude, and solitude blur the lines between determination and madness, the perilous search for the extinct creatures of the Earth becomes increasingly a journey into Stan's own past.