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In this tour de force, Lionel Duroy takes inspiration from his own childhood to illustrate that in order to free ourselves from our troubled pasts we must first understand where we come from.
From the German-occupation to present day, from the upper-class streets of Neuilly to...
In this tour de force, Lionel Duroy takes inspiration from his own childhood to illustrate that in order to free ourselves from our troubled pasts we must first understand where we come from.
From the German-occupation to present day, from the upper-class streets of Neuilly to the housing projects of Rueil, Lionel Duroy retraces the chaotic path of a young boy trapped in a disastrous familial odyssey.
It starts with a loving couple that weds during the Occupation. The husband comes from a now-penniless noble family, the wife is an amazing beauty who foolishly aspires to be a socialite with the aid of her newfound “nobility”. They’ll have 11 children and so the husband must do whatever he can to satisfy the demands of his wife so that she can blindly lead the bourgeois life she has dreamed of.
But he can only manage to keep up false pretenses for so long before his whole charade brutally falls apart. And as a family, they have a long way to fall. As their social humiliations and struggles increase, the mother’s psychological condition worsens. She makes her children’s lives even more difficult on top of what everyday life already throws their way.
Lionel Duroy was a journalist for Libération and L’Événement du jeudi, and edited several celebrity biographies. He has written a dozen novels published by Julliard including:Méfiez-vous des écrivains, Priez pour nous, and Le Cahier de Turin.
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