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A longtime journalist for Libération, Lionel Duroy is the author of many books. Le Chagrin sold over 60,000 copies and won both the François Mauriac and the Pagnol prizes.
Marc, a writer and investigative journalist, researches the children of war criminals. The suicide of Ana, daughter of the genocide-accused commander in chief of the Serbian forces, General Mladic, takes him to Belgrade more than a decade after the Yugoslav wars. Among his encounters, he meets a small “ethnically pure”...
Marc, a writer and investigative journalist, researches the children of war criminals. The suicide of Ana, daughter of the genocide-accused commander in chief of the Serbian forces, General Mladic, takes him to Belgrade more than a decade after the Yugoslav wars. Among his encounters, he meets a small “ethnically pure” Serbian populace who won the war against the Croats and Muslims. Convinced that they waged a just war, they do not deny the atrocities they committed. Through conversations, Marc and his translators find out that, despite their pride, these men struggle against their own consciences. Duroy examines the complexities of this fratricidal war in his inimitable literary style.
A longtime journalist for Libération, Lionel Duroy is the author of many books. Le Chagrin sold over 60,000 copies and won both the François Mauriac and the Pagnol prizes.