Sorj Chalandon

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• Enfant de salaud

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  Goncourt 2021 · Shortlist

  Enfant de salaud

  AITitle translated by AI:“Son of a Bastard”

  Sorj Chalandon · 69 when first published

  Novel · 329 pages · War, Family, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:A journalist covering the 1987 trial of Klaus Barbie in Lyon learns that the court file on his own father, who claimed to have fought in the Resistance, lies in the archives of the Nord.

• Retour à Killybegs

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  Goncourt 2011 · Shortlist

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  Retour à Killybegs

  Sorj Chalandon · 59 when first published

  Novel · 276 pages · Politics, War

  AIAI-generated summary:In Killybegs at Christmas 2006, Tyrone Meehan, an IRA veteran whose betrayal has just been exposed, decides to tell the truth about how he became a traitor before others tell it for him.