Used book – Un secret, Philippe Grimbert

Children often invent a family for themselves, a different origin, other parents.

The narrator of this book, however, invented a brother for himself. An older brother, more handsome, stronger, whom he speaks about to holiday friends, strangers, those who won't check... And then one day, he discovers the impressive, almost terrifying truth. And then it's an entire family history, heavy, complex, that he must reconstruct. A tragic story that takes him back to the time of the Holocaust, and the millions of disappeared over whom a blanket of silence has fallen.

A psychoanalyst, Philippe Grimbert came to novel writing with La Petite Robe de Paul. With this new book, awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 2004 and the Grand Prix littéraire des lectrices de Elle in 2005, he demonstrates with as much rigor as emotion how far the power of the novel can go in exploring the secrets at work in our lives.

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