Used book – A Secret - Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2004 & Grand prix des Lectrices de Elle 2005, Philippe Grimbert

Children often invent families, different origins, different parents for themselves.

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

A psychoanalyst, Philippe Grimbert came to the novel with "La Petite Robe de Paul" (Paul's Little Dress). 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.