Le compte est bon

The child joins his family at five days old, and from very early on love and money torment him. Does someone who was adopted owe a debt? He starts counting obsessively: a stolen chocolate, a confiscated twenty-dollar bill, a game-show prize, gifts to his mother that miss their mark. But how can the account ever balance when a gap opens between childhood memories and what really happened, between his social background and his new passions, and when the first five days of his life, spent floating between two names, remain a hole? Scenes from the family mythology are told, taken apart and retold until they are finally called into doubt.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

261 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

First published

2023 by La Peuplade

ISBN

9782925141709 (original)