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The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone
By (Author) Camille Kouchner
Translated by Adriana Hunter
Octopus Publishing Group
BRAZEN
10th May 2022
5th May 2022
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Sociology: family and relationships
Autobiography: general
362.76
Paperback
288
Width 124mm, Height 196mm, Spine 22mm
210g
THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD,
THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIESTHE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL #METOOINCEST MOVEMENTA family's secret weighs on everyone...THE FAMILIA GRANDE is a tender, groundbreaking and lacerating memoir written by a sister who could no longer remain silent... Set in amongst the French intellectual elite in Paris and their lavender scented estates in Provence, it tells a story of a corrosive secret that sits in a family for decades and ultimately razes it and the political, literary elite that enabled its silence, to the ground. Already an international bestseller, it has touched a nerve across the globe and has brought about a powerful reckoning of incest, and its far-reaching trauma. The Familia Grande is a book of a generation. 'The courage of a sister who could no longer keep quiet.' - EMMANUEL MACRON 'Camille's battle to liberate herself from a painful family secret has touched a nerve across France' - THE NEW YORK TIMESCamille Kouchner was born in 1975 in Paris. She is the daughter of the late French writer and political scientist Evelyne Pisier and Bernard Kouchner, a cofounder of Doctors Without Borders. She is a lawyer and senior lecturer at the University of Paris with a specialization in labor, contract, and health law. The Familia Grande is her English debut.