The propagandist / Cécile Desprairies ; translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer.
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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- ISBN: 9781954404267 (paperback)
- ISBN: 1954404263 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 199 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : New Vessel Press, [2024]
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General Note: | First published in French in 2023 as La Propagandiste. |
Language Note: | In English, translated from the French. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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