This TraversÔee des temps faces a prodigious challenge: to tell the story of humanity in the form of a novel. Scroll through the centuries, embrace the ages, feel the upheavals, as if Yuval Noah Harari had crossed paths with Alexandre Dumas. For more than thirty years, this titanic project has occupied Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. Accumulating scientific, medical, religious, philosophical knowledge, creating strong, touching, living characters, it gives birth today and propels us from one world to another, from prehistory to the present day, from evolution to revolution. , while the past illuminates the present. Paradis Perdus launches this unique adventure. Noam is the hero. Born 8000 years ago in a lakeside village, in the heart of a paradisiacal nature, he faced the tragedies of his clan the day he met Noura, an unpredictable and fascinating woman, who reveals it to himself. He faced a famous calamity: the Flood. Not only did the Flood make Noam-Noah go down in history, it determined his fate. Would he be the only one to travel through the ages?