by Sorj Chalandon · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246828150
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«Enfant de salaud» is the novel by Sorj Chalandon, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (336 pages, in French).
A son who never dared ask his father what he did during the occupation discovers, in the wake of the Klaus Barbie trial in 1987, that his father's judicial file lies dormant in the archives. The investigation confronts him with the truth: he was not a resistance fighter, but a young manipulator who went through five uniforms in four years and deserted four armies. The novel interweaves the chronicle of the trial and the story of a lying father who built his family legend on imposture.
Novel originally published in French, framed within contemporary French literature and historical fiction about the Second World War.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction interested in stories about historical memory, family secrets and the Nazi occupation in France.
Sorj Chalandon is a French writer and journalist.
