Jean-Michel Guenassia

Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini—amateur photographer and compulsive reader—is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world of rock 'n' roll and the Algerian War. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's...