by Philippe Grimbert · Grasset · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246670117
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«Un secret» is the novel by Philippe Grimbert, published by Grasset in paperback (192 pages, in French).
A boy invents an older brother, more handsome and stronger, to tell those who cannot verify it, until one day he discovers a terrifying family truth. Reconstructing that story leads him to the Holocaust and the millions who disappeared under a collective silence, in an exploration of memory and inherited secrets.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (2004), the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle (2005), and the Prix WIZO (2005).
For readers of contemporary fiction and stories about historical memory and the Holocaust; also a common school reading.
Philippe Grimbert is a French writer and psychoanalyst.
