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Autopsy of a father

Title
Autopsy of a father / Pascale Kramer ; English translation by Robert Bononno.
Author
Kramer, Pascale, 1961-
Publication
  • New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
Bononno, Robert
Description
204 pages; 20 cm
Summary
"When a young woman returns to her childhood home after her estranged father's death, she begins to piece together the final years of his life. What changed him from a prominent left-wing journalist to a bitter racist who defended the murder of a defenseless African immigrant? Kramer exposes a country gripped by intolerance and violence to unearth the source of a family's fall from grace. Set in Paris and its suburbs, and inspired by the real-life scandal of a French author and intellectual, Autopsy of a Father blends sharp observations about familial dynamics with resonant political and philosophical questions--taking a scalpel to the racism and anti-immigrant sentiment spreading just beneath the skin of modern society"--
Uniform Title
Autopsie d'un père. English
Alternative Title
Autopsie d'un père.
Subject
  • Adult children of dysfunctional families > Fiction
  • Intellectuals > France > Attitudes > Fiction
  • Immigrants > Violence against > France > Fiction
  • FICTION > Literary
  • FICTION > Family Life
  • FICTION > Political
  • FICTION > Psychological
Genre/Form
Domestic fiction.
Note
  • Translated from the French.
  • "Autopsy of a Father first appeared in French as Autopsie d'un pè̀re, Copyright 2016 by Flammarion"--Title page verso.
ISBN
  • 9781942658245
  • 1942658249
LCCN
  • 2017002512
  • 99972778305
OCLC
  • ocn959038428
  • 959038428
  • SCSB-8418157
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries