Une histoire silencieuse

In photographs Thérèse seems elsewhere, her gaze absent, as if holding her breath to protect a secret or swallow a cry. For more than half a century Thérèse Lefebvre, née Larin, has been gone, and nobody has spoken of it again. Her granddaughter wants to give a body back to this woman she never knew. She investigates, retraces, records and transcribes to fill the holes in the story, and writes the joys and the drama of a young woman who, like so many housewives of the postwar decades, saw her aspirations swallowed by the comfort of uniform suburbs.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

256 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Canada

First published

2025 by La Peuplade

ISBN

9782925416357 (original)