ISBN: 9781609455156
Editorial: Europa Editions
Autor: Bon, Adélaïde
Año de edición: 2019
N° Paginas: 192
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: About the Author Adelaide Bon is an actress and writer. The Little Girl on the Ice Floe is her debut.Tina Kover's published works include the Modern Library translation of Georges by Alexandre Dumas pére, The Black City by George Sand (Carroll & Graf), and Maurice G. Dantec's Cosmos Incorporated and Grand Junction. In 2009 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for the translation of Manette Salomon by the Goncourt brothers. A woman grapples with the traumatic memory of a childhood sexual assault in this international bestseller: “An unsettling autobiographical tale” (Livres Hebdo, France).When Adélaïde’s parents find her mute and unable to stop crying, they bring her to the police station and file a complaint against “X” for sexual assault. In so many ways, her childhood ended then―at just nine years old. Yet Adélaïde grows up without showing any outward signs of damage. As a teen and then as a seemingly cheerful young woman, she suffers in silence.Twenty-three years after the attack, Adélaïde receives a call from the Paris juvenile squad. DNA analysis suggests that a serial burglar known by police as “The Electrician” has assaulted at least seventy-two minors between 1983 and 2003. It is suspected that he has hurt hundreds of others who never filed complaints.In the spring of 2016, at the Paris city court, along with eighteen other women, Adélaïde confronts the rapist who destroyed her life. In precise and delicate prose, with poise and passion, Adélaïde Bon tells a story that is both terrifying and all too common.“Vividly conveys the survivor’s emotions of shame, rage, and fear but also offers―slowly, tentatively―hope for healing.”―Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Review Praise for The Little Girl on the Ice Floe"It's hard to say if this riveting text is a novel in the strictest sense of the word, but the power of the material makes that a minor quibble." "Vividly conveys the survivor's emotions of shame, rage, and fear but also offers--slowly, tentatively--hope for healing." --Kirkus Reviews Starred Review "A work of public service that should be read to politicians, judges, and lawyers so they can understand." --François Busnel, La Grande librairie "It's an unsettling autobiographical tale, at times punishing to read, but with a literary strength that lifts it high above a simple survivor's account." --Livres Hebdo "Brilliant and visceral, [Bon's] writing unearths her deepest ruins with an urgency that befits the story. Running a relay race in which the devastated child she was hands off to the thousands of little girls and women in the world who have been victims of rape, Adélaïde Bon finds the right pace, ethereal yet determined. She tears the language of assurance to shreds, cuts through the fog of forgetting, lifts this story up with the force of her poetic vision and crosses the finish line: recovery. For her, recovery is at once a precious literary trophy, revenge against her own destiny, and a magical word with which she hopes others can find peace." --Télérama "A thrilling autobiographical tale. [...] Much more than a 'simple' story of resilience, The Little Girl on the Ice Floe renders with surgical precision, the ebb and flow of what experts call 'traumatic memory.'" --L'Express "Something in this book transcends the author's story to speak of the threats that weigh on the female sex, the violence against these bodies." --Slate
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