An edition of La honte (1997)

Shame

A Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
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An edition of La honte (1997)

Shame

A Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
  • 3.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 42 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Shame begins as the story of a twelve-year-old girl, but it is also about the storyteller, a mature woman, the author herself. The violent moment lives inside her. The trauma comes at a moment when she is still so close to her mother and father that the threatened act of violence is incomprehensible. It cuts through her like an axe.

Over time, the memory cools until it is just a snapshot she carries in her purse, unchanging even after years have passed and the twelve-year-old girl has grown into an orgasmic woman and a writer. Years later the cut is still there, but her whole being has grown around it like a tree that has been struck by lightning and survived.

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English
Pages
111

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Cover of: Shame
Shame
1998, Seven Stories Press
in English - A Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Cover of: La honte
La honte
1997, Gallimard
in French

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Translated From
French

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.914, B
Library of Congress
PQ2665.R67 Z46513 1998, PQ2665.R67Z46513

Contributors

Translator
Tanya Leslie

The Physical Object

Pagination
111 p. ;
Number of pages
111

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Open Library
OL701937M
ISBN 10
188836369X
LCCN
97050426
OCLC/WorldCat
38132630
Library Thing
207084
Goodreads
1123582

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