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Le Dernier Roi de Marettimo Grégoire Domenach Two men meet again after many years on a small Sicilian island. They were once the best of friends, when Lorenzino would spend his summer vacations in Marettimo, where Cesare lived. They devoted all their time to playing chess, in an all-consuming passion. But one day, Zino, as he was known, became involved in a smuggling affair that forced him to leave Italy in a hurry. On the eve of the Second World War, he settles in France, his mother's homeland, where Lorenzino becomes Laurent. Resistance fighter in the maquis on the Plateau des Glières, deported to Mauthausen, then captain of industry and father of a family, he builds a new existence by overcoming hardship, never looking back.
