The little girl on the ice floe
Bon, Adélaïde2019
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Adélaïde Bon grew up in a wealthy neighbourhood in Paris, a privileged child with a loving family, lots of friends and seemingly limitless opportunity lying ahead of her. But one sunny afternoon, when she was nine years old, a strange man followed her home and raped her in the stairwell of her building. She told her parents, they took her to the police, the fact of the crime was registered - and then a veil was quietly drawn over that part of her childhood, and life was supposed to go on. Except, of course, it didn't. Throughout her adolescence and young adulthood, Adélaïde struggles with the aftermath of the horror of that afternoon in 1990. The lingering trauma pervades all aspects of her life: family education, friendships, relationships, even her ability to eat normally.
Main title:
The little girl on the ice floe / Adélaïde Bon ; translated from the French by Ruth Diver.
Author:
Bon, Adélaïde, authorDiver, Ruth, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2019.
Collation:
267 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780857059550 (hbk. :)
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2516167
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