Parle tout bas
Sélection Prix Goncourt 2021
Sélection Prix Femina 2021
Sélection Prix Temps retrouvé 2021
En 2005, la narratrice a dix-neuf ans quand elle est victime d’un viol dans une forêt. Plainte, enquête, dépositions, interrogatoires : faute d’indices probants et de piste tangible, l’affaire est classée sans suite. Douze ans après les faits, à la faveur d’autres enquêtes, un suspect est identifié : cette fois, il y aura bien un procès.
Depuis, la narratrice a continué à vivre et à aimer : elle est mère d’une petite fille et attend un deuxième enfant.
Aujourd’hui, en se penchant sur son passé, elle comprend qu’elle tient enfin la possibilité de dépasser cette histoire et d’être en paix avec elle-même
Elsa Fottorino livre ici un roman sobre et bouleversant, intime et universel, qui dit sans fard le quotidien des victimes et la complexité de leurs sentiments.
- Bleue
- Paru le 19/08/2021
- Genre : Littérature française
- 160 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715257375
- ISBN : 9782715257375
Foreign Rights
Speak Softly
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Awards
Long-listed for Prix Goncourt 2021
Long-listed for Prix Femina 2021
Presentation
In 2005, the narrator is 19 when she is raped in a forest. Complaint, investigation, depositions, questionings: the police and judicial machines are activated. But due to lack of convincing clues and valid lead, the case is dismissed. Twelve years after the facts, through other investigations, a suspect is identified. The narrator is called upon again. It will take several more years of proceedings, but justice does its work: there will be a trial. In the meantime, the narrator has continued to live and love: she is the mother of a little girl and is expecting a second child. This new development brings her back brutally, rekindles her fears and risks reopening wounds. She thought she had buried the past, but she realizes that suffering is always lurking. Above all, she understands that the possibility of overcoming this story and being at peace with herself is finally within her reach.
Elsa Fottorino delivers here a sober and deeply moving novel, intimate and universal, which tells the daily life of the victims and the complexity of their feelings.
Elsa Fottorino is a journalist specialized in classical music, and a reporter for Classica. She can also be heard on France Musique. She is the author of several novels, including Nous partirons.
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