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Autopsy of a father / Pascale Kramer ; English translation by Robert Bononno.

Kramer, Pascale, 1961- (author.). Bononno, Robert, (translator.).

Summary:

When a young woman returns to her childhood home after her estranged father's death, she begins to piece together the final years of his life. What changed him from a prominent left-wing journalist to a bitter racist who defended the murder of a defenseless African immigrant? Kramer exposes a country gripped by intolerance and violence to unearth the source of a family's fall from grace. Set in Paris and its suburbs, and inspired by the real-life scandal of a French author and intellectual, Autopsy of a Father blends sharp observations about familial dynamics with resonant political and philosophical questions, taking a scalpel to the racism and anti-immigrant sentiment spreading just beneath the skin of modern society.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781942658245 (trade paperback) :
  • Physical Description: 204 pages ; 19 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2017.
Subject: Adult children of dysfunctional families > Fiction.
Intellectuals > France > Attitudes > Fiction.
Immigrants > Violence against > France > Fiction.
France > Politics and government > 21st century > Fiction.
Right-wing extremists > France > Fiction.
Paris (France) > Fiction.
Genre: Swiss fiction (French)
Domestic fiction.
Political fiction.
Philosophical fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sechelt/Gibsons.

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