Prix Médicis めでぃしすしょう
Edition 33 (2017)
Fiction (French-language works)Translated works (Prix Médicis étranger)Essay/Non-fiction (Prix Médicis essai)
Winners
1 peopleA memoir by a writer who left an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, recounting the break with a life governed by faith and custom, the conflict with family, and the search for a new beginning. It quietly weighs communal pressure against the cost of freedom.
Leaving a closed community reshapes both family ties and the self.
288 pages
memoirreligioncommunityindividual freedom