by Didier Daeninckx · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070409785
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«Meurtres pour mémoire» is the crime novel by Didier Daeninckx, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (377 pages, in French).
Paris, October 1961: while police suppress an Algerian demonstration, a teacher is shot dead. Two decades later, his son dies in Toulouse after consulting historical documents. Inspector Cadin links the two cases and brings to light the repression of the Algerian War and the unhealed wounds of French memory.
The novel, originally published in 1984, is the second installment in the Inspector Cadin series and won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1985. This edition dates from 1999.
Edition with pedagogical dossier, aimed at crime fiction fans and school use.
Didier Daeninckx is a French author and left-wing politician of Belgian descent, best known for his romans noirs.
