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Maman
Sylvie Schenk (born 1944)
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The narrator's mother is born in 1916, and the grandmother dies giving birth. Supposedly she was a silk worker, like the great-grandmother before her. But is that true? And what story is passed on to those who come after? As a child, the narrator suffers from this uncertainty, and as a writer she is still deeply unsettled by it. Weaving facts and fiction together, she traces the questions her family history leaves open and sets a story against her mother's silence, one that gives voice to poverty, shame, trauma and doubt, in an attempt to explore what we call origin.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 172 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2023 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 79 when first published
- ISBN
9783446276239 (original)
- More
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