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By Gerard Breissan

GERARD LOUIS BREISSAN is a local of Aix-en-Provence within the South of France and a Canadian citizen. As a boy, he studied classical literature and confirmed an early present for writing, profitable many college and local prizes, that have been subsidized via Hachette the publishers and the Lycée Mignet.
Since 2005, he has been operating and residing in China, the place he's the top of Hospitality and Tourism administration at Jilin University-Lambton collage in Changchun, China, taking the opportunity additionally to go back and forth round the state to profit approximately chinese language tradition and traditions.
Breissan tells us that many amazing occasions happened all through his early years, which he has continuously felt a compulsion to expose. within the Day They got here he eventually speaks out. it really is occasionally tricky to differentiate truth from fiction, yet you, the reader, needs to decide.
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THE DAY THEY got here is the gripping tale of and younger adult's adventures within the South of France and the African Congo. Gérard meets and kinds an unbreakable bond with the alien Eudoxus, who turns into his mentor and parent angel. He recounts the fisherman Etienne's tale a couple of terrifying and outstanding typhoon off Le Grau du Roi within the French Camargue, whilst six males misplaced their lives. the tale ends while Gerard is twenty-one. just like the author, whose identify he stocks, he joins the hospitality to determine the area. in the course of the narrative and as he grows up and matures, Gerard struggles to stay actual to himself, and to discover the right kind direction in life.

"I beloved this story of a teenager's shut encounters with an alien who turns into his mum or dad angel, rescuing him from a number of scrapes, as soon as within the guise of an ageless Jesuit missionary within the Congo. An resourceful and pleasant learn, no matter if you are not a ufologist." – John Russell, SJ, previously long-time Warden of Ricci corridor, college of Hong Kong.

"Breissan's story poses many questions for readers questioned via alien craft phenomena. – Alien from one other global? Angel from Heaven? Who, or what's the mysterious yet benign Eudoxus?" – Margaret Clarke, acclaimed translator of the long run fiction classics, The final guy and the area because it will be and previously lecturer in English at Notre Dame collage of schooling, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

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