Under. The compelling prose Les Dessous (Underwear, 2020) follows three different girls, all of them on the cusp of adulthood. In a small French town in 1963, Elisabeth, hidden under a café table, listens to adult conversations. It’s the day of her friend Thérese’s funeral and she is also reading the diary of Henriette, a Jewish girl, who suffered persecution during the war. Secrets kept undisclosed in the French post-war small town are gradually coming to light. The world of teenage girls is confronted with the adult world, with war and collaboration, conformity and social violence, with large and small betrayals.
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| Author: | Béatrice Kahn |
| Original title: | Less dessous |
| Number of pages: | 152 |
| Year of publication: | 2024 |
| Issue number: | 1 |
| Publication number: | 39 |
| Translator: | Jan Petříček |
| ISBN: | 978-80-88411-34-5 |
| Binding: | paperback with flaps |
