Secret

This is a strong B-format paperback package - designed to appeal to readers of literary survival memoirs. It is a winner of both of France's most trustworthy literary prizes - those voted for by ordinary readers: the Prix des Lectrices d'Elle and the Prix Goncourt des Lyceens. The film is directed by Claude "Class Trip" Miller and starring Ludivine Sagnier and Julie Depardieu premiered in Cannes and should be on general release in 2008. The rights are already sold into ten other languages: Germany (Suhrkamp), Italy (Bompiani), Japan (Shinchosha), Spain (Tusquets), Netherlands (De Geus), Greece (Plethron), Israel (Matar), Korea (Prunsoop), Taiwan (Ten Points), Romania (Trei)."The day after I turned fifteen, I finally discovered what I'd always known..."Growing up in post-war Paris the sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe brother - older, stronger, and more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realise that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor: a half-brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a buried family secret that he was intended never to unearth.

ISBN 1846270448   DEWEY 843.92 ISBN13 9781846270444 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC22 Publisher Granta Books   Pages 160 Imprint Portobello Books Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 01 Jan 2008   Width (mm) 129 Translator Polly McLean   Academic level General

"* 'Secret is a spare, haunting, brilliantly poised evocation of the way experiences of war, pain, and shame, even when unspoken, percolate through the family to shape and distort new generations.' Lisa Appignanesi * 'A spare, remarkable novel that reads as easily as a children's tale, yet packs a grown-up punch.' Independent * 'A slim little book - quick, but heavy with terror. Secret is a marvel.' Financial Times"

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