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Prix Femina · 2015 · Winner

StockAugust 20, 2015Biography & Memoir

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Femina	2015	Winner

About This Book

An intimate family memoir centered on the Paris apartment where the author's grandparents went into hiding during the Nazi occupation, using the cramped physical space as a metaphor for the hidden life of a Jewish family under threat.

About the Author

Christophe BoltanskiFR

Christophe Boltanski is a French journalist and writer born in 1963 in Paris. He is the nephew of the celebrated artist Christian Boltanski and grandson of a distinguished family of French Jewish intellectuals. He has been an award-winning foreign correspondent, covering crises in Africa and the Middle East for the newspaper Libération and later for Le Nouvel Observateur. Read more →