Used book – La Confusion des peines, Laurence Tardieu

"You don't want me to write this book. You told me. You asked me. You had thought about it all evening, all night, you didn't want it. Or, more precisely, you didn't want me to write it now. This book, Laurence, you will write it when I am dead. That's what you told me." A father accused of corruption, a dying mother, a world collapsing. Ten years later, Laurence Tardieu opens a "letter to her father" to understand. Who is this man, whom as a child she loved with a crazy love? This upright and generous man, who was brutally condemned then imprisoned? How to accept that a human being is not one, but multiple, fallible – human? How to break the silence that has always bound her to this father, so close and yet so distant, to break free from him and finally exist?

Writing that sticks to emotion. Her most beautiful book. Emmanuelle de Boysson, Marie Claire It is sober, poignant and remarkably accurate. Jean-Rémi Barland, Lire.