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Chanson douce

by Leïla Slimani

Prix Goncourt · 2016 · Winner
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GallimardLiterary Fiction

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Prix Goncourt2016Winner

About This Book

Opens with the murder of two children by their nanny and works backward to examine the class dynamics and hidden intimacies that made the catastrophe possible. A dissection of the bourgeois family's relationship with domestic labor.

About the Author

Leïla SlimaniFR

Leïla Slimani is a French-Moroccan author and journalist born in 1981 in Rabat, Morocco. She studied at Sciences Po Paris and the École supérieure du commerce de Paris before turning to writing. She worked as a journalist for the magazine Jeune Afrique before publishing her debut novel Dans le jardin de l'ogre in 2014. Read more →

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