Cécile Desprairies

The Propagandist (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Lehrer, Natasha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'In her debut novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family's real-life collaboration during the Second World War . . . The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation' - New Yorker In a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized by her mother. The women talk about beauty secrets and gossip, but the mood grows dark when the past, notably World War II, comes under coded discussion in hushed tones. Years later, the silent witness to these sessions has become a prominent historian, and with this chilling autobiographical novel she sets out to unmask enigmatic figures in and around her family. Why, she seeks to understand, did the narrator's relatives zealously collaborate with the Nazi occupiers of France, even remaining for decades afterward obsessive devotees of that evil lost cause?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Swift Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800755246
• Artikelnr.: 72214302

Autorenporträt

Cécile Desprairies is a specialist in Germanic civilization and a historian of the Nazi occupation of France. The author of several historical works about the occupation and the Vichy regime, she was born in Paris in 1957. The Propagandist is her first novel.