La femme qui ment | Hervé Bel

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The lying woman

Hervé Bel

Collection : Littérature française

Release date : 05/10/2017

With this, his third novel, Hervé Bel has produced a magnificent portrait of a
woman who asks timeless questions about the body, motherhood and yearning for
freedom

Sophie is 43. She lives in Paris with Alain, but doesn’t have children. Every day,
she takes the train to work at La Défense, the high-rise office-tower district just west
of Paris. She’s supposed to be efficient, fast, modern and productive. She applies
herself. But the cadence is frenetic, she feels like she’s... Sophie is 43. She lives in Paris with Alain, but doesn’t have children. Every day,
she takes the train to work at La Défense, the high-rise office-tower district just west
of Paris. She’s supposed to be efficient, fast, modern and productive. She applies
herself. But the cadence is frenetic, she feels like she’s at the end of a cycle. At 43,
she’s going to be old soon.
One day, exhausted, feeling cornered by her boss who’s criticizing her for handling
a case poorly, she lies. Says she’s pregnant. It’s the first step in a long chain of
events, a complex defense mechanism that will, briefly, make her daily life kinder,
gentler, easier to bear. Elated, Sophie decides to lie to Alain, too. Could convincing
him that she’s expecting a baby lead to making one for real? What she doesn’t know
is that Alain can’t have children.
As the web of her lies gradually tightens around her, Sophie’s past unfolds: her
childhood, her youth in the suburbs, at the foot of the skyscrapers of La Défense
that gradually emerged from the earth. Like the bars of her future prison.

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