La dernière fois que j’ai vu Adèle
Prix des lycéens et apprentis d’Île de France
Lorsqu’elle constate la disparition de sa fille Adèle, seize ans, Marion panique. Fugue? accident? Elle prévient son ex-mari, la police… Au fil des heures, l’angoisse croît. Adèle reste introuvable. Quelques jours plus tard, un attentat perpétré par Daech au Forum des Halles tue vingt-cinq personnes. Et si Adèle faisait partie des victimes? Sans relâche Marion appelle les numéros verts, les ministères, scrute la presse, les réseaux sociaux, traque les moindres indices… Jusqu’au jour où, sur une image saisie par une caméra de surveillance, elle reconnaît Adèle, dissimulée sous un hidjab… Sidération, incompréhension, culpabilité. L’inexorable quête d’une mère pour retrouver sa fille commence.
- Bleue
- Paru le 22/08/2019
- Genre : Littérature française
- 224 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715253292
- ISBN : 9782715253292
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The Last Time I Saw Adèle
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When she discovers the disappearance of her daughter Adèle, 16 years old, Marion is seized with panic. Did she run away? Is it an accident? She calls her ex-husband, the police… Hour after hour, Adèle cannot be located and the anxiety is growing. Few days after, Daesh carries out a terrorist attack in the shopping mall of Les Halles, causing the death of 25 persons. Is Adèle among the victims? Tirelessly Marion calls the toll-free hotlines, the ministries, she scrutinizes the press, social networks, tracking down the least indication… Until the day when she recognizes Adèle on a photograph taken by a surveillance camera, hidden under a hijab… Then her daughter is alive, but she is a terrorist who lives in Syria. For the second time, Marion’s world is collapsing. How is this possible? How and why didn’t Marion see this coming? Stunning shock, incomprehension, and culpability. Marion needs to react quickly. The search of a mother to find her daughter who became a jihadist is just beginning…
Astrid Éliard was born in 1981. She already wrote a collection of short stories, Nuits de noces (Société des Gens de Lettres’ Prize for short story), and three novels, Déjà l’automne, Sacrée Marie ! and Danser (Marcel Pagnol Prize, rights sold to Croatia, and to Fin Août Productions for cinema).
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