La honte
Women, france
Authors, French
French Authors
20th century
Childhood and youth
Authors, biography
Women authors
New York Times reviewed
Fiction, general
Biography
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Shame begins as the story of a twelve-year-old girl, but it is also about the storyteller, a mature woman, the author herself. The violent moment lives inside her. The trauma comes at a moment when she is still so close …
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