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Edition 122 (2024)

NovelFrench literatureLiterary award

Winners

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Kamel Daoud Winner

A severe, urgent novel in which the voiceless Aube confronts war memory and the meaning of motherhood. The wound carried on her body becomes a direct record of historical silence.

Beyond a stolen voice, a history that has not yet been written waits to be found.

416 pages
war memorysilence and testimonymotherhoodbodily traumathe Algerian civil war